THE CENTURION METHOD

COMPLETE AGE OF IRON EDITION

Works by Craig Fraser

THE CENTURION METHOD TRAINING MANUAL
ESOTERIC EXERCISE (CM EXPANSION)
HAMMER KVLT (CM EXPANSION)
17 PILLARS/SONS OF ARYAS
SIGURD BOOK OF THE HEROIC OUTLAW


Works by Paul Waggener

STADHGALDR: A PRIMER OF PHYSICAL RUNEWORK
VAKANDIBOK: A TAUFR OF AWAKENING
THE BOOK OF THE BLACK CROW
REWILDYOURLIFE ZINE #1 & #2
OPERATION WEREWOLF (CM EXPANSION)











THE CENTURION METHOD
COMPLETE AGE OF IRON EDITION

by

CRAIG & LUCY FRASER
with PAUL WAGGENER






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Aalawulfaz Bks and Sigurd&Brynhildr

www.sigurd-strong.com

Published by Aalawulfaz Bks 2014
No part of this book may be copied or reprinted without express
permission from the authors.
Fourth Edition 2014.

Cover design and layout by Andreas Nilsson.

HORSES ON THE HORIZON

by Lucy Fraser

The thick dry earth,
We are smashed together
Indistinguishable.

Never looking up.

A shy, scattering hum
only heard by the silent.
A wave in the chest
glancing.

Subsonic thundering,
a velvet rush.
The dizzying
rumbling, rising.
The unthinkable divide
rumbling, rising.

















































In memory of dim Hyperborea

Once again the founders of the CM dedicate this work and all its
subsequent materials to the memory of Timothy Dawber.
See you in Fensalir brother.

Paul Waggener would like his humble contributions to this
corpus dedicated to its creators, Craig and Lucy Fraser, who
came along at a crucial point to help him to Arise and Conquer.



























































We have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so
great as Atilla, whose blood flows in these veins? Blood...is too
precious a thing in these times. The war-like days are over. The
victories of my great race are but a tale to be told.
I am the last of my kind.
- Vlad III of the House of Drculeti





















































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INTRODUCTION TO THE 2014 EDITION

This revised 2014 edition has been in the works
for some time. When initially Paul and I had the
discussions about spreading Centurion Method doctrine
in the form of supplementary expansion packs I always
envisioned a complete edition which would contain
everything we had worked on singly and together, as a
kind of journal which coagulated everything wed
expressed.
A lot of these works swallowed up whole months
of my life in 2012 and 2013, each one becoming
everything I believed the Centurion Method should be.
Now, at the beginning of 2014, as we march
towards the 100 year anniversary since the outbreak of
WW1, I cant help but think that the creation of the
Centurion Method and my feverish destruction of its
hierarchy as soon as one began to emerge is a distant
echo of the latent destructive urge which gripped the
major players of that Great War.
We all seek destruction.
We all seek creation.
The two go hand in hand. One nation/person
wants to expand and to grow, which requires the removal
or destruction of an opponent. Creation in the womb of
the female requires the destruction by the hand of the
male. Our passivity and meekness over the last half
century in the Western world has seen our total moral,
spiritual and social decay verging on full collapse. We are
ripe for destruction, so that someone else may begin
creating. But I do not believe our creative spirit has died
just yet, and so I believe there is a little more destruction
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left smouldering in our veins before we take the long and
quiet road to Hel.
The companion project to Centurion Method,
Sigurd, which also saw publication this year, sought to do
the work which was impossible with CM. Creating a fully
spiritual and fully physical creature has proven to be a
mighty task and perhaps what I set out to do with the CM
training manual was too epic, too vast and mystifying to
the majority of its readers. So, by creating Sigurd, I cut the
nose off CM and allowed it to flourish of its own accord,
as a method of removing the human being from his
comfortable home in the city, putting him back into the
uncomforting vista of nature and requiring him to thrive.
Sigurd could therefore become as lofty as I possibly
hoped, shattering my dreams of how aggressively
spiritual I could make something which is fundamentally
about lifting heavy objects. By doing so I revealed (to
myself more than anyone) that the seeds of that project
were littered all over CM doctrine.
This collection has become something of a
rallying cry for all those involved, in expressing the first
small wave of what will become a vast ocean of projects
and publications on spiritual, mental and physical fitness,
we have put a stake in the ground of everything we dare
to cover.
This is not finite, it is not a finished article,
everything here is open to fluidity and progress and
reinterpretation over the years. Whatever happens, this
was the first line drawn in the sand.




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CONTENTS

CENTURION METHOD TRAINING MANUAL 5

OPERATION WEREWOLF 135

ESOTERIC EXERCISE EXPANSION 157

HAMMER KVLT EXPANSION 219

PRAETORIAN EXPANSION 243

VIR CULT NOTES 291

CULTUS SOL INVICTUS NOTES 335









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THE CENTURION METHOD
REVISED TRAINING MANUAL
















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BOOK ONE
THE THEORY OF SUPREMACY

























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PREFACE

This book is about fitness, health, and exercise. A
new yet ancient program of force that the world hasnt
seen replicated outside of forced labour camps or the
bowels of the jungles, forests and tundra for hundreds if
not thousands of years. But this book is not just about
fitness and gyms and routines of sets, reps and weights
(although we do use them). This book primarily deals
with philosophy and ideas, for there is where the human
being is altered, not at the weights rack or the treadmill,
not even on the wooded trail or under the smooth kiss of
sweat soaked spandex. No, the human being is altered
essentially in the mind, and any program of successful
overcoming will alter the man first, and then the body.
You will forgive me then for speaking in lofty and
seemingly unrelated terms whilst we lay the foundations
for what will emerge as a simultaneously glittering and
ashen monument to the human animal.
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The big questions in life; why are we here? Are
we alone? Are we unique? What are our origins? All of
these ivory tower introspections are of course only of use
to the human who concerns himself with the
metaphysical and the abstract. I leave such concerns to
the great thinkers of our past, Nietzsche, Evola, Jung,
Crowley; anything else would be colossally arrogant, to
assume that the modern man has anything left to add to
the already bloated and ineffectual mass of lore on
human nature and the problem of mind, body and spirit.
The other questions which are much more fun
(and applicable to daily life) are where did you come
from? Are you unique? How do your origins influence you?
These questions are only answered by the introspection
into the human mind, which is contrary to the study of
human nature. Human nature is an abstraction. The
Victorian or Edwardian would have thought of human
nature as intrinsically related to Gods will, Gods creative
force etc., being a relatively devout and orthodox
protestant people (in Britain and America at least). The
Roman or Greek however would have launched into
infinite diatribes about human nature in relation to the
gods in their halls of marble and crystalline light, human
nature as you see it is specific to the lofty ideals of the
generation. The human mind however is eternal, all
peoples across all millennia agree, all philosophers agree,
all scientists, religious idealists and simpletons agree the
human mind is the realm of primal urge, desire and
unconscious thought. For the Victorian or Edwardian
orthodox this would have been coloured by the idea of
sin, built in and handed down since Eve. For the Greek or
Roman (in a Platonic sense) the human mind would be
coloured by the fall from graceful non-corporeality into
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the flesh of physicality, depending of course upon the
school of thought. Whatever the answer or the
interpretation, the mass of human intelligentsia agrees,
the human mind is the realm of the simplest form of man.
Before we dive into the swamp of conflicting and
over complicated concerns of the human mind, let us
quickly destroy any previously held convictions.
The human problem is an entirely sociological
one; it rests not on the foundation of human knowledge
or human achievement but upon what the human does not
know. Since we first crawled from the swamps and
thicketed jungles we have been terrified of what we do
not understand and cannot explain. Since that moment
we have been endeavouring to control nature or at least
remove the most violent aspects of her constant assaults
upon our collective person.
One of the most pertinent and catastrophically
disastrous developments of this desire to control nature
and the wildest elements of the human beast was the
invention of politics. Nothing has so cruelly and
fantastically castrated the modern human, so intimately
and totally separated him from the cradle and crucible of
nature from which he was born.
The Grecian and Roman idealists who came up
with the idea of the polis and the body politic no doubt had
a secular and simplistic ideal in mind, believing at first
that their autonomous city states, self-governed and self-
sustained would be perfected through a polite
hierarchical democracy. Of course the original Republican
urge manifested through inevitable evolution into the
horror of the ego focused dictatorship and the
monstrosity of corrupt Imperial rule, contrary to the very
roots of the political idea. Politics as a way of coming to
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a logical conclusion is utterly and totally idiotic. Lets say
500 people live in a village, they meet and declare a
representative from each part of the community, so that
eventually a so called council of elected persons, say fifty
of them, represent each person, in theory. These people
then sit down and discuss the best options for the
populace in terms of protection, food, water, shelter etc.
If there is a disagreement then the issue is put to a vote. A
third of the populace argue vehemently for one position,
whilst two thirds of the populace argue another,
eventually subduing the rebellious third by a vote,
which is nothing more than the majority asserting its
dictatorial right through superior power. Even the most
pristine and elevated ideal is reduced to a simple threat.
The majority rule through their vote and are coerced and
aligned according to the politicians aims, which are
nearly always nefarious and catastrophically selfish.
Of course none of this is the fault of the men and
women involved. Humans are selfish, humans are
concerned with their own power and will stop at nothing
to make sure they get what they want. History is littered,
nay sculpted, by the tales of an oppressed or repressed
people rising up and slaughtering the elites who
presumed to control them. Of course, I have here
pointed out the failing of democracy to represent
everyone involved, but right wing conservative
dictatorship is ten times worse, one person or a small
group making the decisions for a huge amount of people
to benefit only themselves is fundamentally flawed. On
the opposite side of the spectrum with the left and the
liberal bents of socialism and communism you have the
stupidity of getting all of the people to make all of the
decisions, which is just impossible and leads to an
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inevitable dictatorship through the party or personality
in control (the dictatorship of the proletariat fast
becoming the state worship of a figurehead like Stalin for
example).
What I am trying to point out is that politics and
the top to bottom idea of treating everyone and
everything the same is purely idealistic and not practical
at all. This idea pervades the entirety of human society
and civilisation like a disease, a virus that poisons and
pollutes everything we do and create. Business is the
worst culprit, providing humans with a wealth of options
and things to spend their money on whilst bending to
the will of the majority even when it is bad for everyone.
The people want sugary, bready, fatty food, quickly sell it to
them so we can make a profit. The people want a quick fix, they
want a system that gets them fit immediately with minimal
effort, quick, lets sell it to them so we can make a profit. Such a
system does not exist.
The human creature does not want what is good
for him, he wants an easy life, good food, the senses sated
and dulled by regular stimulation, he does not enjoy
excesses of hot or cold, dry or wet, always seeking the
mean and the average. If we look at Britain, a country
with one of the coolest, wettest summers, and the
balmiest, wettest winters, with the most westernised
technology obsession (outside America) we see some of
the laziest, fattest, most sedentary creatures on Earth.
Considering our origins and the battles of feverish
tribalism that have taken place on this island over the
centuries, the current state of health in Britain is an
abomination and a horror.
This book will look at how, why, where and with
whom human beings evolved, we will deconstruct the
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human mind and look at what fuels our desire to be fitter,
healthier and stronger, contrary to the rest of the human
herd. We will then discuss in detail the undeniable truths
which human kind cannot avert its eyes from, no matter
how hard it tries. Once these inappropriate truths are
declared we can begin to apply them to a program of
fitness and delve briefly into history to see when humans
have excelled themselves and their species stupidity to
do something incredible, whether that is for simple
survival, or conquest of each other for resources,
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WHERE DID HUMANS EVOLVE AND WHAT DID THEY
LEARN?

So to begin with, the first place we must go is the
root, for as any moron will tell you, if the root is poisoned
the plant withers and dies, and from the condition of the
leaf you can see the condition of the root. In this great
and varied plant that is the human race we have some
atrophied leaves which are dying, poisoned and bloated
through malnutrition and overfeeding. Others are
underfed and blighted with diseases and illnesses of the
mind and body. Others still, a varied few from each
nation, are virile, healthy, green and blooming. This
variation, this glorious abundance of type which the
human plant offers comes from one root, and the reasons
some leaves are able to be so grossly malformed and
physically sick and yet still survive is because of the
brilliant health of the original plant.
That root is the Homo sapiens ape of our
ancestral past, the very same fleshy vehicle which you
still inhabit; it has been the same for hundreds of
thousands of years of evolution. From the perspective of
Darwinian science if a creature reaches a point where it is
able to adapt violently and successfully to stimulus
without the need for evolution, it has reached a level of
almost physical perfection. This is where we stand, the
human animal, perfect in every way, able to adapt to any
stimulus and survive, to the detriment of every other
creature on planet Earth. Human beings live in the icy
wastes of the North Pole, they live comfortably in the arid
deserts of the equator, they live in the thick jungles of the
tropics and they live in the dense carpeted forests of the
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various continents. We adapt frighteningly well to
adversity, nay, we thrive upon it.
Leaving behind any puerile notions of right or
wrong, let us now look at what we learned in our original
home. We make sweeping generalisations across
continents and land mass, across social divides and tribal
sword rattling, but the core truth is there, hidden under
layers of veneer, as Robert E Howard would say, and
beneath the mask is the ape revealed, screaming and
blood soaked.
Put yourself in the jungles of central Africa of
thousands of years ago, your fellow tribesmen adorned
with lion skins and wearing feathers in their hair, painted
for the hunt and for battle; the clattering of spears
against hide shields, taut and thrumming with the
anticipation of the fight. A cry goes up, the undergrowth
parts and a rival clansman bursts through the bush, his
muscles stretched and sharp, sprung and ready to strike,
his spear half slung over his shoulder, teeth bared,
bounding towards you.
Now put yourself on the wild empty plains of the
Russian steppes, the Caucasus mountains spread like a
broken spine along the horizon, each one capped with the
first of the Autumn snows. A freezing wind drones in
from the north, dusting everything with a chafing bite of
the promised winter. Your people are migrating south,
the furs and skins of bear and bison wrapped around
their shoulders, the clan leader marching far ahead on
the back of a black horse that champs wild and still barely
tamed. The open steppe spreads out before you,
untameable, ferocious, and hostile. The wind carries the
sound of huntsmen on the wind, an enemy tribe perhaps,
harrying the slow, the aged, the sick, the young. The line
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of your people spreads out like a thin dark trickle of life
against the wind streaked grasses that whistle and sing.
The sun is setting, night is falling, many will die.
Put yourself in the grassy meadows of northern
Europe, the snow-capped mountains standing sentinel to
the far north, the dark brooding forests, black and
moody, enveloping all the hillocks and meadows for
hundreds of miles in every direction. The morning mist
rolls in thick and stagnant, clinging to the dew soaked
grasses that spread a cold and bitter carpet under your
bare feet. Far across the snow choked passes a horn blasts
warily and fearfully, a single pillar of smoke rising from
the villages to your back. The hair on your arms and neck
stands up, prickling you with the cool morning air. War is
sounded in that black horn blown warily and fearfully,
war that is coming to your village.
Finally, drop for a moment into the vine tangled
swamps of what would one day be China, the birds
chortling in the branches high above, the sun coming in
sleepy beams of light through the canopy, frogs and
insects croaking and chirping in the dense black water
that creeps silently among the arching roots and stagnant
pools. Stepping panther quiet through the undergrowth
you pause for a moment, the tracks of your prey growing
harder and harder to follow, the flint dagger in your
fingers growing slick with sweat. Your breath comes in
short sharp rasps, desperate to not be heard. Quietly the
tiger parts the leaves to your hind and lets her widened
eyes bore into your soul. Turning to greet her you see the
two paws as large as your head, razor claws flexing in and
out as she tastes the air. Sweat beads on your shoulders as
you hunch to the ground, flint dagger at the ready.
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What did we learn here? What did Mother Nature
teach us whilst we suckled so hungrily at her teat, before
we so arrogantly pulled away and strutted off into the
stars to play at being gods? We learned what all other
creatures in Nature have learned across the aeons of their
(and our) evolution. Let us look at the varied and
harrowing success of the human across every situation he
is thrust into, I am not looking for any of your modern
interpretations of right and wrong, or good and evil or
any of those distinctly Current Era assumptions which we
lofty and scientifically hypnotised grunts are so fond of,
we are looking at the simple truths of the ancient human
experience. I have separated these into some simple
headings so we can look at them more deeply and all at
least agree that early man would have been mightily
influenced by their presence in his social and spiritual
life. And remember, what influenced your DNA ancestors
for the last twenty to thirty thousand years will absolutely
have an effect on you.

Tribalism and Xenophobia

Let us not be simpletons and idealists, let us not
look to modern utopian desperation and think of a cuddly
My Little Pony world where our ancestors all sat around a
cave fire and broke bread with one another, sharing meat
and wine with African, European, and Asian alike. This is
cold hard truth. When members of one tribe met
members of another tribe they fought. It was not
uncommon for the word for enemy to be synonymous
with the word for not of my tribe.
The tribe was the god of the ancient man. Before
religion came along with its pernicious ideas of separate
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soul/body/deity conception, man was wholly part of
creation and the creation was part of him. The wolf pack
does not share food with the other wolf packs, the lion
does not share meat with the wandering cheetah, the
gorilla who is chasing a female in season does not let a
rival from another group wander into his territory and
have sex with her. We are highly territorial and
frighteningly xenophobic creatures. Prick the wafer thin
crust of our humanity with the pin of intelligent
introspection and you will find a ravenous madman
skulking with thigh bone club waiting to kill every
interloper onto his patch.
Remember we are not saying that this is right or
wrong (we do not believe in such abstractions), but
humans have evolved as tribal creatures. The tribe was
our life, if the tribe was weakened, gave forth weak
infants then the whole entity suffered. If the tribe was
weak in defending itself, if its males became fat and lazy,
the women were carried off and raped by stronger males.
If the women became barren or malnourished the men
would leave to find better women to impregnate and
bring forth children. If an area became stagnant of food
or water, the tribe would move as a cohesive whole into
another area and fight or chase out the humans dwelling
there. History is a knackers yard of grim legends and
myths of the migration and invasion of huge swathes of
tribes wreaking havoc across the planet. White men are
some of the most cruel and vindictive proponents of this
kind of racial xenophobia. The history of the Celt from his
home in the mountains of Turkey, out across Europe is
one of ethnic cleansing in the most cold and brutal
fashion. The history of the Indo-European from
Scandinavia to Russia, India to Egypt is one of expansion
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and expulsion, no remorse, no mercy, the tribe survived
and the tribe ruled, everyone else was enslaved, chased
away or executed. We can look at Africa, Asia, the
Americas, every continent and find the same story, tribes
hating each other, killing each other, putting whole rival
nations to the sword so that we could take their land,
breed with their women, eat their food and set up home
in their caves, huts, or villages.
This xenophobia springs from a very sensible and
rich wellspring of preservation of your own people over
that of others. Remember, Im not talking about how
humans should act now, Im talking about how we did act
for thousands of years. If you wanted your immediate
family (tribe) to survive, then when another tribe was
stumbled upon or encroached upon your territory, you
may have held some kind of cross familial meeting, you
may have attempted peace, but when the going got tough,
you would grab a flint axe and bury it in their skull. If
were honest, humans developed most of their inter-
tribal relations on the back of a beating or a strangling.

Selfishness and Hatred

Now we move onto selfishness, the other
lynchpin of human evolution which everyone so reviles
and abhors in themselves and others.
Selfishness, self-importance, concern with your
own needs and wants before those of others, is something
that cannot be hidden or ostracised in the minds and
hearts of men and women across the world. It is
something that has been with us since we first stood up,
arched our backs, yawned and began to walk on two feet.
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We need not explain it, its simple, unlike some
forms of xenophobia or tribalism, selfishness is buried
within the core of ourselves, it cannot be overcome, it is
intrinsic to our nature. We want what is best for ourselves,
then our family, then our immediate friends and
associates, then the rest of the world. Putting forward
any other hypothesis than the intimate and intrinsic
selfishness of mankind is utter lunacy.

Hunger, Pain, Disease and Death

This is one of the many overlooked aspects of life
that has influenced the human beast, one that I find most
interesting. Humans hate being hungry, they hate pain,
they hate being ill and above all they hate death. Yet
these forces are what have driven us to evolve into the
beings we currently are. Unlike the honed and toned
predators of the environments in which we live, we have
no claws, we have no rows of sharp teeth and we are
relatively poor at long distance sprinting, especially after
the prey we would traditionally stalk. Unlike the other
herbivores of the environments in which we live, our eyes
are not on the side of our head, we do not have several
stomachs for digesting large amounts of foliage or grasses
and we are bipedal, making escape from lions, wolves,
tigers and panthers pretty difficult. However we did
evolve to be able to climb, we did evolve to think, we did
evolve to outsmart both predator and prey and ended up
becoming the most dangerous creatures on earth.
The constant presence of hunger evolved our
metabolism into a finely tuned machine which thrives on
fasting and lack of food and then the sudden presence of
large amounts of fatty, protein dense organ meats. The
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constant presence of pain, either the burning hot sun in
the south or the driving snow in the north, struggling to
feed ourselves, survive against our fellow animals, build
shelters, tools, etc. meant we lived with almost
permanent stress pumping through our veins. Disease
would have hounded us, as it does every other creature,
parasites, nutritional problems, everything that we
modern humans face would have been present in the
ancient world, but we would have almost certainly just
left the sick and diseased behind to die, they would have
just slowed us down. The most present and prevalent
aspect that drove our evolution and that of every other
animal on planet earth, is of course death. Without death
evolution stalls, as it has in some ways for us as modern
creatures, death is the barometer of progress. By culling
off the weak, the sick, the ill, the crippled, nature ensured
that only the most adaptable and ferocious humans
survived. You should always remember that, you are the
product of a family tree that stretches back millions of
years through a line of highly skilled apes that did
everything they could to survive, no matter what the
cost.

Madness and Violence

There is a well-known assertion among
psychiatrists that if everyone in the world did a
personality test they would come out with some kind of
neurosis or mental illness. That is, in the terminology of
the mental health professionals, everyone would be
required to have psychotherapy or be committed to an
institution. That is a fact.
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Lets think about that logically for a moment,
this in effect means EVERYONE has a mental problem that
the scientists want to fix. None of us is mentally healthy;
we all have inflated or deflated opinions of ourselves,
others or the world. We all have imaginary friends,
whether in the spirit world or in the heavens, we all have
fantastic ideas of what did or did not create us and our
surroundings, and far more commonly we have eating
disorders, unhealthy thought patterns, sociopathic or
psychopathic tendencies and almost everyone is
narcissistic to an extent.
But where I differ from the psychologists and
psychotherapists is in my answer to the above problem.
Their answer is to try and help everyone, try and cure
everyone, make them see their error and get them back
in line. My answer is leave everyone to it. There must be
a reason were all mentally ill, and its because this
situation in which we currently find ourselves is frankly,
maddening.
Our ancestors were self-obsessed, sociopathic,
anti-social, xenophobic, blood thirsty maniacs by all
accounts! Lets take the Celts as a brief example, and the
wider Indo-European inhabitants of the ancient world.
These people were head hunters; they saw tribal warfare
as more of a sport than a physical necessity to protect
their people and would often meet in large groups just to
hack each other up with rocks and spears. They believed
the soul of a man resided in the skull so would gather up
the heads of their foes and heap them up as a testament
to the greatest warrior in their tribe. Celtic myth and
legend is full of the most bizarre and disturbing
obsessions of warriors and kings gathering heads at their
feet, asking for the head of an enemy or impaling heads
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on sticks as a warning or threat to others. Retrieving the
head of a loved one or family member and bringing it
back to your tribe was seen as a great achievement
among the young fighters and would often spark a blood
for blood feud that would rage for centuries, some of
them in a sense are even still going
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.
Violence and insanity go hand in hand and our
ancestors seemed to care very little for the health and
vitality of their enemies, concerned only with the
survival of their immediate family and tribe at best and
their fellow countrymen at worst. Everyone else was fair
game and history across the planet is a bloodthirsty mess
of tales of rape, butchery, murder and suicide. One need
only examine the myths of any tribal people and discover
the relatively pandemic obsession with deeds being
celebrated that would nowadays get you a life sentence or
death row.
Whilst all of this is obviously abhorrent
behaviour, we must accept, it is in our nature, humans
like madness, it goes with the territory and we like
violence, it defines the borders of our territory.

Rape and Conquest

The final thing we have to look at is possibly the
most disturbing and easily the most morally jarring trait
of our ancestral forebears, but again it is one that has

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The reader is encouraged to view the sagas and myths of
the Irish and Cuchulain specifically for reference here.
Head hunting, blood feud and retrieval of a loved ones
skull are rife throughout the texts.
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polluted our subconscious, and probably will hound us for
eternity. That fact is rape.
One of the most endemic and systematic forms of
warfare that mankind has ever engaged upon is that of
the sexual conquest of rival tribes and nations. When we
were not committing wholesale genocide of our
neighbours who inhabited the land into which we were
migrating, we were putting men and children to the
sword and impregnating their women. In effect the
military code of conduct for the ancient hominid Homo
sapiens was if we cant chase them out, well breed them
out. Lets look at one of the most famous quotes of
Genghis Khan, oft paraphrased for film and book,
The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to
drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see
those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your
bosom his wives and daughters.
Genghis Khan was a barbarian of the most basic
sort, if we want to take a glimpse beneath the veil of
humanity we need only look at the conduct of this man
and his Mongolian soldiers during their carving out of
one of the largest empires the world has ever seen.
The Khan knitted together a ramshackle horde of
warriors out of the cruel and iron shod brutality of the
Mongol steppes and swept across Asia and most of Russia
and the Near East in a swathe of bloodshed and genocide.
The Mongol horde delighted not in empire, they did not
sack cities or claim thrones for themselves, they burned,
they stole, they massacred, solely for the splendour and
enjoyment of battle. The Khan delighted personally in
nothing more than entering a city, killing the rulers,
giving the loot to his men and raping the women. From
the point of view of civilised western man this is
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disgusting and horrific behaviour; from the point of view
of our ancestors of 10,000 years ago this kind of
behaviour would have been greeted with approving nods.
We cannot play around with the facts, it is now
estimated in some circles that the DNA of Genghis Khan
resides in 1 in every 200 Asian men, so to put it
politely/bluntly, Genghis Khan fathered an unthinkable
amount of children in his short and violent life.
The minds of men are a depth unplumbed and it
is a well-known adage that a mans true character is
revealed by how he treats people when he believes there
will be no consequences. In the modern era that
torturous and despicable aspect tends to come out during
war, when old grudges are suddenly sparked into violent
conflict. We need only look at the horrors in Yugoslavia
or the Middle East to see that when people are given the
opportunity or smoke screen of warfare under which to
commit atrocities, the old spectres of genocide, mass rape
and ritual humiliation suddenly rear their ugly heads.
I am not trying to morally justify rape here, on
the contrary, but we need to look at how and why human
beings would behave in such a way when thrust back into
situations which they feel require them to commit
atrocities. Ending a human life is a highly stressful affair,
however you look at it, so when a man is handed a gun or
a sword or a club, he is no longer Joe Bloggs from down
the road, he is suddenly dropped back into the first cave
and he stands over the first victim and he commits the
first murder once again. All human veneer is shredded
away and the beast within is revealed, every time a
human executes another human, wherever, however for
whatever reason. When this beast is revealed, all the
beastly elements of his persona are revealed also.
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Animals regularly and consistently rape each
other, sometimes for domination (especially homosexual
rape in mammals, felines, canines etc.) and sometimes
simply for procreation. When looking at lion and wolf
mating patterns one could be forgiven for thinking it was
always based on rape. Human beings would have been the
same in our ancient societies. The people of one tribe
when conquering a neighbouring tribe would have seen
the utter and brutal necessity in massacring or enslaving
the men and infants and taking the women as their wives.
This behaviour is seen everywhere. The Bible contains
several instances of it, with the Tribe of Dan being
instructed by God himself to massacre some Philistine
tribes and forcibly take their women as new brides. The
Quran contains similar if slightly veiled references to the
actions of invading forces and Islamic history is clearly
one of rapine and slaughter when looked at objectively.
The history of empires and their gradual expansion and
contraction wherever they were instituted is again one of
massacre and rape. The Romans, the Persians, the British,
the Ottomans, everywhere large numbers of males go
under the black flag of war; they inevitably end up
harking back to old primitive habits and committing
rape. Whether we see this from a cold scientific
perspective and admit it as a biological programming we
will struggle to undo, or we see it from the moral human
perspective and lament it as a generally masculine
patriarchal trait, we have to agree, it is a disgrace and a
disgrace that has hounded humanity since its infancy. It
is not something we have to face, it just is what it is.
What we have to admit when we discuss any of
the above, xenophobia, violence, hatred, rape, tribalism,
is that these are clear and present elements of human
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history from our first birth to our current technological
world supremacy. Where we have attempted to subdue
nature and the natural elements of ourselves we have
only made these situations worse. What would have once
been tempered with basic human necessity is now held
back, like a poisonous wave and suddenly bursts forth
with horrendous violence. In the last 100 years it is
estimated in excess of 160 million people have died
because of war, whether directly or indirectly. That is a
staggering number.
What we have to accept is that humans are
violent creatures, non-violence is counter to our nature,
however you try to justify or explain it. We are apes, we
are mammals, we are animals, we are not lofty creatures
created by a benevolent deity a few thousand years ago.
We are beasts that have a heritage of millions of years of
brutality and violence.
Violence is all we have ever known, and as we
have seen throughout the aeons, it is probably all we ever
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WHAT ARE THE TRUTHS OF THE UNIVERSE

When we speak of truth I am not talking about
humanist moral truth, which has been abandoned, I am
not talking about scientific truth, which is relative, I am
talking about the truth which no one can deny. So this
truth which we explore must be self-evident, it must be
there for all to see, blindingly obvious and undeniable.
That truth is of course, sex and violence.
We can dress it up if you like and call it creation
and destruction, but from a human in the world
perspective (as opposed to a human in the
lab/study/library), those two truths can be reduced to
sex and violence. We will deal with each one separately
but we must first discuss how humans like to partition
and apportion meaning to subjects to box them off and
cripple their interaction with one another. Sex is reduced
to the simplistic act of procreation; it has become nothing
more than the physical act of consummation, the penis
and the vulva merging to a staid ejaculation of sperm
meeting with an ovum to create new life. If it is not in this
completely sanitized perspective it is in the base and
rather nauseating hammer and tongs of pornography
which removes the procreative aspect and leaves only the
two slabs of meat smashing together for nothing other
than narcissistic flesh worship. Violence is reduced to the
physical act of hitting or impaling another human with a
part of the human body or a weapon, be it blade, bullet or
bomb. Violence is so much more than that, as we shall
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Sex The Creative Truth

Sex is the summation of human desire, the
pristine hunger of the human spirit to create more of
itself, as with all other creatures in the known Universe.
Everything is seeking to replicate itself, from the simplest
virus or bacteria, all the way up to the most complex and
dominant predator on our planet. Replication is the
driving force behind everything. Evolution resides in the
prime original force for creatures to mutate, adapt and
alter themselves for their environment, solely to better
the chances of surviving and breeding further, in effect
nothing more than a crazy loop of ever expanding and
diversifying complexities.
For the human animal this desire is rooted in
flesh, for some creatures it is more a smell/sense/season
rooted action, take dogs and cats for example, leaving
scents and breeding in spring or when the animal is in
season. Humans however are able to breed all the time,
any time of year, and are in season regularly in sync with
the lunar cycle. This has opened up a dizzying
opportunity for us to be permanently sexually aroused, as
we can see in the patterns of Friday and Saturday night
booze and booty binges. Men and women love getting
dressed up, in what equates to an enormous mating
display, take drugs and inebriants to reduce their
inhibitions and then proceed to choose each other based
on fleshy considerations and then mate (but not breed).
All of this can be explained quite simply in the pack
mentality of our similar mammalian cousins.
We can look at other apes, other carnivores and
other herbivores to better understand human behaviour
when it comes to sex.
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Wolves live in a tribal group where everyone is
related in some way, the pack is led by a dominant (alpha)
female and a dominant (alpha) male. The male and female
are (generally) the only ones who breed and the pups are
looked after by the rest of the pack. The group hunt
together and move together as a single unit and share
everything in a strict linear hierarchy. When it comes to
breeding the female will come in season and make
displays and the males will begin the infighting and
squabbling which results in the alpha male either
continuing his dominance or being ousted by a younger
relative (usually one of his own sons or nephews). The
female will assert her dominance by punishing the other
females for breeding and possibly killing the pups they
may birth. Rape is an institution in canines, used for
dominance among the males and general breeding habits
between the males and females.
If we look briefly at the behaviours of
herbivorous herd animals we can see that sex is again
used as a biological weapon, a threat to allow only the
strongest and hardiest to breed and survive. The herd is
usually more female dominant, with a larger number of
females and infants to a very small and even sometimes
single male. This single male will be the largest, strongest
and most physically dominant masculine force in the
surrounding territory and he will assert his dominance
over the herd by mating with every single female of
breeding age, no matter their relation to him or response
to his advances. If a younger more virile male approaches
the herd they will fight, and the winner will become the
new dominant male of the herd until a newer, younger
male comes along and repeats the cycle.
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When it comes to us hominids we can look at two
generally differing types of ape that bear remarkable
similarities to us, the chimp and the bonobo. Both live in
central Africa and both exist in highly social groups with
a highly complex regime of dominance through either the
male or female. Chimps tend to exist in militaristic tribal
communities, with a dominant male and dominant female
much like the canine/wolf system. The male exerts his
dominance over the other males and the females through
violence, beatings, physical domination and rape. The
chimp pack will go out on irregular hunts for monkeys or
other small animals and they will show almost
feline/canine traits when bringing down and
slaughtering prey. Chimps are highly territorial and will
murder any intruder onto their soil, whatever his
background, without remorse. They regularly establish
and adjust the boundaries of their territory with other
chimp packs by making forays onto neighbours land
where they kill other chimps and steal food.
Bonobos on the other hand exist in very laid
back communities led by women, with an alpha female
adjusting the social and political dynamic, not with
violence but with sex. It is said that the Bonobo is the sex
addict of the animal kingdom and he/she will engage in
the sexual act not just for procreation but as a recreation,
a pastime, a stress reliever and a balm during times of
aggression. If there is an argument in the pack the alpha
female will solve it using sex, and the Bonobos spend a
large amount of time grooming each other, cuddling and
generally relaxing. It has been said before that if the
Chimps are the drunken Skinheads of the ape world, the
Bonobos are the stoned Hippies.
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In the rest of the animal kingdom the same
themes pervade everything; Nature is a highly sexualised
and creative place. The laws of Evolution, the diversity of
the plethora of creatures which assail the senses on all
sides, are but the outermost rim of the wheel of life,
which spins around the central axis of sex. The creative
principle, and the flamboyant, display focused nature of
the male/female divide, is something which is deeply
absent from the life of many westernised humans, partly
due to the stigma and abhorrence associated with sex
which has been passed down by the Abrahamic religions,
and partly due to a fear of women handed down to us
from the Dark Ages.
For many, such a principle as sex has nothing to
do with fitness, for the few (and we are the few), such a
dynamic and beautiful force as creation is present in all
things. The spark of life should be at least acknowledged
if not actively worshipped by those seeking to better
themselves. The desired aesthetic of sheer muscular
superiority which is the focus of 99% of bodybuilders and
gym users points glaringly to the huge importance placed
upon sex by the average person. We should not ignore
that basic human urge.

Violence The Destructive Truth

There is a well-known saying that opens this
subject perfectly, given the previous glance at sexual
chemistry as a creative force; War is to men, what
motherhood is to women. Since we first crawled from the
collective womb in primordial Hyperborea we have been
a species in feverish love with violence. Unlike most other
communal dwelling, pack mentality mammals we thrive
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upon and relish violence. When other creatures move
into the territory of a rival they usually allow their
enemies to escape, or if they put up enough of a fight
then they are killed, but always with careful instinctive
planning and attempts to minimise violence. Other
animals dont want to risk injury to themselves by
mindlessly attacking others. Humans on the other hand,
throughout history have moved into the territory of rival
tribes or cousins and mercilessly slaughtered them. We
seem to enjoy inflicting pain and misery on each other. It
would seem from an outside perspective that after sex
our favourite pastime would be genocide.
Why is this? Well again, sadly for those species
we have annihilated, violence is the other axis on the
wheel of evolution. In nature life is brutally cruel, if you
cannot survive the influx of foreigners attempting to take
your land and kill you, then you are too weak to survive
and nature just brushes you away. Take the Neanderthals
for example, by all accounts and the gist of modern
archaeological discovery there was a brief time when
Homo sapiens and Neanderthal lived in the same areas as
one another, being spawned from the same archaic root.
However, once we started learning how to wrest
ourselves violently and passionately from the rest of
nature, we began to eradicate the Neanderthal wherever
we found him. This was not racial cleansing, this was
species cleansing. And we did a bloody horribly good job
of it. All archaeology points to the unsettling fact that the
Neanderthal in all his thousands of years of evolution was
wiped out by us, purely because, like us, he stood upright
and ate similar foods. When it comes to survival of the
fittest it seems early man was a cruel hand.
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In modern times from a purely sociological
perspective human beings adore violence. We thrive upon
pain, although we have now sanitized and renamed much
of what are highly stressful situations. Violence against
the self we call discipline, refusing to eat is called
dieting, working out so hard you get injured or dedicating
your life to violent sports like rugby, football or martial
arts are all accepted pastimes for large numbers of
people. Violence issued by the state in the name of
cultural discipline is called law and order and meted
out without mercy by gun toting cops in America and
baton wielding jack booted cops throughout Europe and
the westernised world. Lastly we can look to the favoured
pastime of the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish, that
blessed and most holy sacrament, the Friday night piss
up. Countless millions across the UK every weekend go
out into the centres of towns and cities across the land;
they drink themselves into an alcohol fuelled haze and
batter one another. Alcohol is the new communion wine
of our aeon, and our bloodied fists are the prayers which
we offer up to our new gods of intoxication and violence.

Assumptions

Putting aside my intensely masculine penchant
for taking extremes and proclaimed fact as dogma, we
can at least assume everyone agrees that the creative
principle as embodied in WOMAN with sex and the birth
of infants is probably the most important force in the
Universe, and conversely that the destructive principle as
embodied in MAN with violence and killing is the most
important force in terms of evolution and the
evolutionary requirement for animalistic elitism in terms
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of ability in the natural world. We can now step forward
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THE APPLICATION OF FITNESS

Charles Darwin coined the term fitness, a fact not
many people know. Before him there was no such word as
fitness to describe someones physical health or
superiority over the rest of the herd in terms of ability
and physical appearance. His loosely cited quote is
In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the
expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting
themselves best to their environment.
Quite clearly fitness to Darwin didnt mean the
physical fitness we now deem it to be. Indeed as many
have pointed out, very unfit creatures have survived
purely because they discovered an evolutionary niche
which allowed them to not be very fast or muscular or
agile at all. Sloths and pandas for example: very slow,
very lazy, and perfectly adapted to their environment.
However, this does not allow human beings to
say ok, cool, Ill be fat and lazy, pandas are. Pandas and
sloths are highly specialized creatures who eat very little
and move very little to maintain the metabolism required
to survive in their environment. Human beings on the
other hand when taken into account of Darwins quote
are absolute masters, bar none, of adaptation. What other
creature thrives in the Nordic wastes of ice and mountain
and equally thrives in the Arabian desert of sand and
scorching sun? Perhaps the canine? Ironic then that it
has become our evolutionary companion.
What the human being has been able to do is
adapt itself frighteningly quickly to whatever stimulus or
form of natural repression was instigated by Nature. If it
was too cold we killed animals and wore their fur instead
of growing our own. If it was too hot we dug wells and
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found water. If it was too wet we built boats. If it was too
mountainous we farmed the steppes. We are veritable
geniuses when it comes to exploiting (and symbiotically
harmonising with) the flora and fauna of the
environment in which we find ourselves and then
exploding in population. In terms of Darwins fitness
maxim we always win out at the expense of our rivals
(usually resulting in their extinction or adaptation to our
presence) and adapt to our surroundings. No other
creature has thus far mastered this, albeit perhaps some
insects, no other mammal then.
Fitness then as Darwin viewed it had nothing
whatsoever to do with how physically able a creature
should have been in its environment. The dinosaurs were
ridiculously fit and they all died out. The Neanderthal
was large, muscular, stronger than us and probably
faster, but we were more intelligent (shrewd would
perhaps be a better word), so we won out. Fitness has to
do with intelligence and the ability to violently and
aggressively adapt to your surroundings to better evolve
or survive whatever potential pitfalls could appear before
you, without warning, without mercy.
Human beings face a diverse and highly varied
plethora of threats from all angles in our day to day life.
Car crash, earthquake, terrorist attack, military invasion,
nuclear war, train crash, economic collapse, home
invasion, rape, murder; we do not live in a stable society
and to sit on your arse and do nothing all day is the moral
and physical equivalent of partying while Rome burns,
pure simpleton logic. But the modern fitness world does
little to adequately prepare people for the worst either, it
simply sculpts their physique (albeit often not too well)
and reduces their risk of early death by CHD or cancer.
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What we need, as a highly adaptable ape, is something
that spurs our evolutionary desire to survive, to kill, to
mate and to put ourselves and the tribe first.

Exacerbating the Problem

To put it simply, what the fitness industry and
the fitness experience needs to do, is excite the
evolutionary urge in human beings so their focus is
yanked back to a most basic desire to survive.
The easiest way to do that is to heighten the
feelings of the three core lynchpins of evolution; sex,
violence and tribalism.
When people are in the gym they are grunting,
they are panting, they are heaving heavy objects,
running, sweating, adrenaline and endorphins are
pumping around, testosterone is flowing (in both sexes)
and the general atmosphere is one of physicality and
animalism. What the modern fitness world effectively
does is encourage humans to act like domesticated beasts.
When a dog is encouraged to be playful, yank on a toy,
chase a stick, he is not playing with you, he is practicing
hunting and killing. More wolf like canines will catch the
toy and shake it violently, often a little perplexed at their
actions, they are pretending the toy is a bird or rat they
have caught and are breaking its neck. We encourage the
dog to be wolf like in this behaviour and if the dog then
displays its true form and attacks a human or becomes
too boisterous we punish or eventually destroy it. The
fitness world does the same. Humans are encouraged to
dress in spandex and skimpy clothes at the gym, to grunt,
sweat, shout and go into beast mode but if someone
started stomping around screaming at the top of their
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lungs or stripping their clothes off and howling like a
wild animal after lifting a ridiculous weight they would be
asked to leave the gym. Yet this behaviour is totally
human.
Look at the anecdotes of people in war, or
survival situations, car crashes, accidents and so on, or
times of particular stress like grief or rage; they dont
experience the high stress and politely nod, stop what
theyre doing and take a breath, they howl, they scream,
they grit their teeth, weep and roar, gnashing, biting,
foaming. This is the real feeling of adrenaline, it is the
fight or flight reflex, and it is what is stimulated by
extremities of exerting activity.
So, what could we (should we) do to heighten
this experience and encourage the human to adequately
experience themselves and therefore evolve faster, harder
and more efficiently?
Firstly, lets allow humans to be humans. Lets
try to get outside and experience our core fundamental
desires and fears as human apes. Training should
predominantly take place in our natural habitat, the
woods, steppes, mountain sides, plains, jungles and
deserts. The training should be in minimal clothing and
footwear, barefoot if possible and naked if were being
totally honest and frank with ourselves. This is not a
game, we are human beings, lets feel the air on our skin,
feel the elements. Heighten tension, give rise to the
animal nature in man and allow it to flow. Drag it up from
the most abnormal and hidden recesses of the pits of
human desire, make it a force to be reckoned with, know
your own limits, your own passions, be irresistible and
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TRAINING IN THE OLD WAYS

Now we can leap forward with gusto and
ambition towards the right way of doing things, which
of course is a self-fulfilling premise as every way is the
right way. We must first understand that in fitness,
regardless of any assumptions we have made in the
previous three chapters, all roads lead to God/Rome.
Whatever path you choose to take, whether it is strictly
endurance, long distance, short distance, slow, fast, hard,
easy, eventually if you are doing it the right way, you will
get fitter and harder. The human body cries out to be fit,
it always has done and always will do, even if 99.99% of
the population became obese, sedentary and
technologically dependant, an elite few would still achieve
greatness, as they always have.
What we can now explore is the brief historical
precedent for the Centurion Method desired levels of
fitness, we can look at where we want to provide a
baseline, who created those baselines and then explore
what they did and why. From there we can establish what
we will do and it will be obvious why.

Spartans and the Agoge

We can leave the epic history lessons at the door,
if you want to learn about Sparta and the Grecian ideal
which spawned its logical outcome, the Spartan warrior,
buy a book on the city states, the surrounding political
situation and then the history of Greece itself. Sparta was
basically one of many autonomous city states which made
up the wider entity of Greece, separate but allied with
Athens and the neighbouring Grecian democracies,
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Sparta was something of an enigma. Its elites were all
soldiers, they did no other work and left 99% of the
physical responsibility in the city to slaves, whom it was
fully legal for Spartans to hunt down and execute any day
of the year, whenever they felt like it. Sparta was a city
on a permanent war footing; her men were trained from
birth in a cruel system of eugenics to be the hardest,
coldest and most elite fighting force in Greece and
ideally, the world.
The famous battle of Thermopylae, a much
hyped up and over mythologised conflict which actually
involved a much greater number than the alleged 300
Spartans, was lead primarily by King Leonidas and his
elite bodyguards. These men fought off the Persian
assault almost single handed and sparked off the brash
nationalism which led to the Greeks ousting the Persian
invaders. This battle has gone down in history as one of
the great victories of individualist libertarianism over
imperial dictatorship, by a free thinking and life loving
people. Lets not forget the Spartans had a perfectly
honed system of training for their children which would
nowadays get a parent put in jail.
This training system was known as the Agoge,
and it is what we try to emulate with the Centurion
Method. The Agoge (pronounced ahgogay) received its
male warriors at the tender age of 7 years old, after the
general requirements of society had already meted out
any biological mutations and left them to die at the
bottom of a cliff or of exposure outdoors. These 7 year old
boys were put through a brutal regimen of physical
training as well as psychological, physical and sexual
abuse, which taught them to block out pain and suffering
and enjoy the privations of the martial life. They fed on
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little and were expected to steal to survive, although they
were beaten or sometimes executed if caught stealing.
The whole system encouraged them to become stealthy,
cruel, sadistic and vicious if cornered, challenged or
insulted. It worked ridiculously well.
The Spartan men were (in comparison to their
slave cousins) large, broad, muscular and brutish. They
filled their time with rowing, lifting, running and
fighting. Their diet was (obviously) Spartan, they lived on
a strange mix of animal flesh and bone stews mixed with
gruel like porridge and a solid mix of dried fruits, figs and
such. The warriors carried their shield, helmet and sword
with them on any training, which all weighed over 20lbs
and they were required to be accustomed to hunger,
dehydration and extremes of cold and heat.
What this all amounted to was, of course, a
highly specialised and elite fighting force. The Spartans
wrestled with each other, trained hand to hand and
learned to kill with their short fat blades from a painfully
young age. Their sarcastic (laconic) sense of humour
which was often misunderstood was laced with a fatalistic
and malignant xenophobia which eventually poisoned
them from the inside out, but for a time, they were gods
among mere mortals.
The Centurion Method, in my position to cherry
pick from whatever I feel like, seeks only to mimic the
brutality, the irony and the cruel simplicity of the
Spartan training system. We dont want to mimic their
political ideals or their abuse of children, but we do want
to encourage their ruthless service to an ideology which
put the cause before the flesh, at any cost.


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The Legions of Rome

We can now look at that much misunderstood
and generalised entity which is the Roman Empire.
Historians and laymen tend to fall into one of two camps
with Rome: passionate adoration or utter hatred. The
Romans achieved so much, at the cost of so many lives
and the swallowing of thousands of indigenous
populations into their homogenous mass that from any
perspective, political, social or theological, people will
gravitate toward respecting or despising the Empire, for
whatever reason. I personally am British, so from our
national perspective, the Roman invasion and settlement
of Britain feels like a negative thing. But then the Saxon
and Anglish (among hundreds of Germanic tribes)
invasion of Britain is generally regarded as a good thing,
whereas the Norman invasion is seen as bad, but we are
all composite mongrels of all the European races,
whatever your supposed heritage. Whatever way you
look at it, the invading nations brought with them
something of their own culture and for good or bad it
often benefited and enriched the local populace even if it
enslaved and humiliated them. Regardless of the actions
of the Roman Empire and its demonic/angelic head in the
Senate/Dictator, one thing can be agreed upon without
argument, the sheer brilliance and martial superiority of
the Roman armies over its enemies.
The Roman Legions were feared throughout
Europe and Asia for more than 500 years, occupying
much of the European landmass and parts of North
Africa, Asia and the Near East for enormous amounts of
time, and boasting itself as the deadliest fighting force
the world had then seen. The Legions would have put
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most of the onus of their success on their discipline,
training and tactics.
At the time 90% of Europes fighting forces, those
military forces which could be called upon by a nation to
defend itself from Romes imperial might, were merely
hordes of locals gathered together under one banner to
turn back the enemy. They were only trained insofar as
their lives had then required; a case in point being the
barbarians and the Germanic tribesmen whom the
Romans faced in their assaults on Germania, Gaul and
parts of the Baltic region. The pagan hordes were
extremely good at what had then been the accepted form
of warfare, i.e. charging upon your enemy from a fixed
position in one great mass and hacking them up with
swords, axes, spears etc. with a small section of men on
horseback. What the Romans did was bring military
precision to the mess of battle. They arranged their
troops in ordered lines, with summary execution a
regular punishment for stepping out of line, they took the
Spartan ideals of loyalty and honour and pushed them to
their logical conclusion. Roman armies must have looked
ridiculous to the pagan hordes of Germania, but they
were painfully effective. Row upon row of shields that
interlocked from neck to knee, creating a wall of
impenetrable brutish force; facing up to the naked wrath
of the pagan barbarian warriors nearly always resulted in
a Roman victory. It is an accepted fact that the might of
the Legions was often only checked in its brutal march by
political factors back at home in the capital, politics
always finds a way to blunt the nose of any military force,
no matter how brilliant.
From the perspective of our fitness focused
endeavours the Romans provide us with an excellent
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source of inspiration and training methods. The
Centurion Method is named after their commanders who
led the units within the famous Legions. These men were
hardy, disciplined, firm and famed for their cruelty
towards their own men as much as the men they faced in
battle. The legionnaires prided themselves on their
loyalty to Rome, to the people of Rome and to each other.
Their training consisted of brutal, long marches which
had to be completed very fast, often 5 miles an hour with
full armour, helmet and shield as well as sword and pack.
They slogged through the deserts of Arabia, to the icy
forests of Germany, the sodden bogs of England to the
mountainous death traps of the Alps, but wherever they
went, they lived and they fought and they won.
The Centurion Method places a large chunk of its
emphasis on the training methods of the Spartans and
the Romans, but it is worth noting that the enemies
against which the Roman forces found themselves most
tested were those of northern Europe. The Empire
snagged quite publically on the might of the northern
Germans and Scandinavian tribes, the Rus, the Barbarians
and the Picts/Celts of Scotland and Wales specifically.
Coupled with the political problems back home, it was the
tenacity, sheer cruelty and dogged will of the woodmen
which they faced that eventually turned the tide of the
Imperial conquest of Europe.
We would be fools to not also consider the
methods used by those barbarians.

The Barbarian Myth

The reason I have titled this subsection the
Barbarian Myth is because there remains to this day an
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idealised and fantasised version of the Wildman and his
kin, the Scythian, the Pagan, the Barbarian. This version
is often at best exaggerated or at worst simply invented,
but this too is something I want to explore briefly from
the perspective of our collective myth which is this idea
that we can get fit the old way and benefit more from
doing so.
What is the Barbarian Myth then? Well, it is a
fundamental almost masochistic desire by civilised
people to idolise the wildness in mankind. Just as we are
doing here, by stating that something is missing in our
way of life and harking back to a bygone era where things
were better, we too are mimicking the pattern of
thousands of years of reminiscence and hindsight. The
veterans of World War 2 looked to the veterans of World
War 1, and they to the Victorian and Georgian imperialist
ideals of Britannia. Those veterans modelled themselves
on the knights of the medieval period, who looked back to
an age of chivalry in the Roman or Celtic days, depending
on their persuasions, and they too to an earlier age of
great kings and indefatigable warriors of an ever more
ancient time. Every tribe has its mythological or
legendary forebears, very real and physical men who
through their feats managed to achieve immortality
through the folk renditions of their actions. We can look
back to the writings of the Greek philosophers who wrote
of Hercules, Jason and the other mythical men of Sparta,
Corinth and Athens. We can look to Romulus and Remus
of Roman myth, those crazed warriors supped by their
wolf mother. Irish, Celtic, Germanic, Slavic and Nordic
myths all share a similar bond of crazed warrior bands,
half human, half god/fairy/demon/elf who led their men
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on bloodthirsty head hunts or battles for magical
artefacts.
Some of the most prolific chroniclers of the
barbarian myth were the Greeks, who maligned and yet
also celebrated the Scythians on one border and the semi-
mythical Amazons on another. The Scythians were a very
real folk who lived in the Caucasus regions north east of
Greece, in what is now mostly southern Russia and
Turkey. The Scythians were a virile and aggressive race
who focussed their religion and livelihood around the
horse. They were highly successful in their brutal form of
subjugation of the surrounding races and accepted
tribute from a large number of powerful empires, namely
Persia and Egypt. The Scythians were a nomadic people,
much like the Mongolians who were similarly horse
oriented and barbarous in their desires.
Why would barbarous people be respected by
civilised folk? Well, it seems obvious really. The Romans
claimed descent from a pair of wild warlord brothers who
were weaned by a huge wolf. The Greeks claimed descent
from half god half warlord barbarians like Hercules. The
Germans and Nordics claimed descent from Odin and
Thor. It is the same for most peoples across the European
and Asian landmass. Barbarians are celebrated because
they are simple. Simple desires, simple lives, simple
truths.
When youre mired in the awkward impossibility
of life in a settlement, the idea of leaping onto a horse,
semi clothed and wielding a sword or battle-axe above
your head, tattooed and wild, seeking to destroy or
pillage anything you come across, is a highly entertaining
idea. For us in our entirely sedated modern society, the
appeal of leaping onto a steed and plundering the ripe
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lands of the four corners of the earth has become an all
pervading fetish, beyond any good reason.
Men want to lift weights because they want to
feel like Hercules and Odin, women want to be strong and
voluptuous because they want to feel like Athena or Hera.
We might not know it or admit it but we all want to be
barbarians.
The Barbarian speaks to something in us that
allows us to be what we really are. Without the
accoutrement and mantelpiece decoration of civilisation
or morality, the wildman in us all is allowed to run free
and dangerous, at its most basic level.

The Importance of Ritual

One of the main reasons people fail with their
fitness program is because they dont ritualise it enough,
they make it something they do, or something they have
to fit into a schedule. It shouldnt be something you feel
you struggle to achieve, or find it hard to get motivated
for; it should be something you feel an almost religious
adherence towards. This is where the idea of ritual comes
in.
In my personal praxis I find myself infinitely
more motivated when I put myself in a place of reverence
for what is about to happen, where I almost invoke the
spirit of the tools which I am about to use. It is a long
running joke between my wife and our friends that the
grass or tarmac is our prayer mat and the steel or rock is
our scripture. There are thousands of sayings about the
importance of various human functions,
There must be something holy about salt, for it is in
our tears and the ocean
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There is nothing that cant be cured by salt; the
ocean, tears or sweat.
Mud on your hands, sweat on your brow, muscles
sore and aching, there is nothing more innately human
than the ritual of using your body.
Try to find the time to be in nature as part of
your fitness program, at least once a week, even if its
only to go outside and workout in the garden or go for a
run where you live. Our ancestors (whatever your
background) were intimately connected with their
surroundings, the seasons and the landscape in which
they lived.
Their rituals of burial, the kurgans and barrows
of the east and west of Europe, the most basic barbarian
ethic of returning the tiller of the soil to the soil, or the
horse bound warrior to the eternal horse lord in the
skies. The barbarian has always been intimately linked
with the soil through his burial rituals and worship of the
Old Mother Goddess. Another aspect which we could
explore is the blatant hero and ancestor worship which
the old folk engaged in. Most of their observances of
festivals were in some way to honour or request the
blessing of their ancestors or elders upon the tribe or
their young. The intimacy with which they worshipped
hounds and canines in general, as companions and
friends in the constant hunt for food and survival, and
the same situation with horses, the steeds upon which the
barbarians made war and transported their nomadic
populations across the steppes, woods and plains. Finally
the mystery of steel, the quote I bloody love from the
Conan films, which we can paraphrase to fit our aims.
Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of
the sky, but Crom is your god. Crom, and he lives in the earth.
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Once giants lived in the earth, Conan, and in the darkness of
chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of
steel. Crom was angered, and the earth shook, and fire and wind
struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the
waters. But in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and
left it on the battlefield, and we who found it, we are just men,
not gods, not giants, just men. And the secret of steel has always
carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan, you
must learn its discipline, for no one, no one in this world can
you trust, not men, not women, not beasts... Steel you can
trust.
Of course Conans father is talking about swords,
but we can apply the same worship of metal to the use of
steel weights. This you can trust, this, says the barbarian,
you can trust.
Back to the original point, and the closing point
about this entire chapter, the people who came before us
were vastly superior in physical ability, endurance,
agility, flexibility, strength and fundamental will to
power. They overcame themselves daily, and we stand in
the glorious position of being able to cherry pick from
their systems and training methods to create for
ourselves a unique and terrifyingly powerful system that
will change not only the physical self but the entire
mental, spiritual and emotional faculty as well.
Get outside, look at the clouds for a bit, and put
your roots back into the soil.






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CATHEDRAL OF THE WOODS

So, weve covered the human mind, we can leave
it there. Explore yourself, explore your surroundings,
that is the maxim and the charge coming down to you
from the aeons black past, pulsing forward on a tide of
blood that threatens to drown everything. The longer we
hold back the tide, the greater the eventual flood. Men
could be to blame, but the pre Celtic cultures of Europe
were matriarchal, and they loved violence, but of course,
this is up to you to work out and come to your own
conclusions.
One element we must explore before we tear up
the soil, expose the graves, heave up the bones and
interrogate our fathers and mothers about their way of
life, is the soil itself. As we have briefly touched on,
putting your roots back into the soil, what could this
mean?
I dont want to get too Zen about all this, I dont
want this to turn into a self-help manual and get all
preachy and Biblical about ways to save ourselves from
the pernicious threat of madness and destruction at our
own hands. But I do want to make some cold hard
statements about where you need to put your roots and
how you need to water them. Very simple. So this chapter
will be short.
There is only one healer that stands mighty and
tall above all others, the mother from which we spawned
and the belly to which we will one day return, and that is
the tree.
The Tree of Life, the World Tree, Yggdrasil,
Irminsul, Donars Oak, holy trees, sacred groves, trees in
the top of burial mounds, totem poles, pillars of Baal, the
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Tree of Nimrod. The tree means something, the tree
speaks to us in an older way than our fellows, animals,
insects, birds, predator, prey. It speaks to us of something
far older than that which we can see and touch and alter.
Spend some time sitting beneath a tree and you will find
questions answered in the stillness of your mind. Listen
to the trees whispering to each other in the bowels of a
cloudless night, this is the muttering of gods enmeshed
with us in this material life.
Whatever your beliefs, whatever your religion,
whatever you hold onto to keep the madness of the abyss
at bay at night, the tree is undeniable. The tree starts as a
tiny seed, buries itself in the earth and then explodes into
life, the years roll by, the lives of humans but a
momentary fleck upon the passing bark, and it grows and
grows. Trees, oak, birch, ash, thorn, they group together
and form woodlands, great expanses of darkened
landscape shrouded permanently in a twilight of their
creation, creaking and groaning to each other. It is here
that we can escape the cities and the grey and the
straight and the narrow that we have created, and we can
switch off.
It is here that the true experience of the
Centurion Method is had. Most heavy lifting programs
require a gym, but with met-con focused workouts you
can do it at home, even better, do it outside, a thousand
times better, go to the woods, or at least find a tree. Stand
beneath it, and pause for a moment, breath, listen to it
and just be for a few minutes. No worries, no pressures,
no city breathing down your neck, even in the midst of a
city; just you and the tree.
Now, in this spot, you can begin to work, you are
the first man, standing beneath the first tree. If you feel
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like it you can be Cuchullain standing and talking to
Badb, squawking in the branches, you can be Odin
hanging and taking the runes, you can be Arthur shaded
by the oak before the Lady of the Lake offers Excalibur, be
whoever you want to be. You are human and this is tree.
This is where we become human beings, not in
the glare of lights and music and the fanfare of the
modern fitness explosion. It is under the shade of a
branch, pulling ourselves into its limbs, clambering over
its roots, hefting from branch to branch, clawing, leaping,
landing, rolling; it is here we are back in our wildest form,
before we came down from the trees.
Whatever you do, whatever you believe, explore a
tree once every week in your workouts. If you take away
nothing else, this is the paramount teaching of the
Centurion Method, bring trees, nature, the Earth and the
Stars into your workout plan. It may not make you bigger,
faster or stronger, but it will make you better. Our
ancestors knew the importance of correct relationship
between a person, the land in which he lived and the
people he shared it with. Explore that relationship.
One of the elements most highly valued by your
ancestors would have been comfort with the seasons, and
the obvious understanding this would have brought
between man and environment. For that reason the
Centurion Method for the dedicated individual should
pivot around exploring their surroundings in every way
in which they manifest. Obviously putting aside
excessively dangerous situations, you should be able to
say with comfort and experience that you know what it is
like to hike in a blizzard, or swim a lake in winter, or go
running in the swarming heat of summer. These are not
challenges, they are merely pointers. I have swum in the
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North Sea off the coast of Scotland in winter, I have swum
streams in January when snow was thick on the ground, I
have climbed mountains in driving rain that made hands
and face go blue. These are par for the course in some
cultures. The Northern climes of the Eurasian continent,
of the Americas, these are harsh and brutal environments
during large chunks of the year, so prepare properly,
make sure youre not doing something stupid, bring a
friend along and do something that makes you proud of
yourself.
Go trail running; find a route through woods,
streams, rocks, theres always some barely excusable
route even for you city folk. Find a way to get out into the
wild and experience running across rough terrain,
barefoot if you can manage it. Feel blisters, feel rocks
jabbing your feet, feel the scrape of bark on your toes as
you climb. In fact, its highly beneficial for your entire
training routine if you make a daily excursion into
extremity. Cut yourself on trees, crawl through mud, hide
in reeds, roll around in snow.
Go mountain climbing, go hiking, wander for
hours, fairy led among the thorns and the wild places, at
least once a month. Stand atop the mountains, the hills,
the barrows and abandoned castles of your people
wherever you are from. Again, whatever your religious
beliefs, the patron god of the Centurion Method is Crom,
the Lord of the Mound, the Place of Sacrifice, the Crooked
One of the Tumulus, the Bloody One of the Burial Mound.
He is seen at the top of the mountain, the
metaphorical/allegorical mountain of your life, he is
death, he is evolution, he is your perfect self, arise and go
toward him, ever upwards, ever striving, ever onward.

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GUERILLA PROGRAM

The Theory

Lift yourself out of your current situation for a
moment. Just as in the previous chapters we momentarily
imagined ourselves hunting through the thickly vined
canyon forests of primordial Africa, now let us imagine a
moment of pure survival, pure horror.

* * *

You are crawling on your belly through the
sparse undergrowth in a frost dampened pine forest,
silent, breathing low and quiet. A rust spotted, grime
covered Mauser rifle slung limply over your shoulder, the
strap digging into your neck as you slink through the rot
darkened mud. Before you creep three men, behind you
another two and a young woman, all silent, all ashen
faced, all gaunt with hunger and weak with fatigue.
A hand is raised up front and you all freeze,
barked orders echoing through the woods far up ahead,
the dim yellowed glare of a spotlight dancing through the
misty gloom. The voices of the enemy are silenced as they
begin to trudge noisily in your direction, will they see
you, will they catch you? Your hairs stand up on your
neck, the cool wind dusts your exposed legs with light
rain and the fog begins to thicken as night draws in.
Somewhere an owl hoots wistfully, the air is dank and
ripe with tension.
With a screech of sudden violence your
companion leaps to his feet and drives a crude handmade
stiletto knife into the throat of one of the enemy soldiers,
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his gun firing prematurely and alerting the rest of the
patrol to your presence. You are on your feet before you
can think, the Mauser slippery and awkward in your
sluggish adrenaline jolted hands, cracks of gunfire fizzing
and snapping from the slim pillars of the trees all around
you. You ping off a few shots in the general direction of
the troops who seem suddenly enlivened and engaged by
the fight. Without pausing to think you bolt off into the
darkness, the searchlight behind you catching your
outline now and then and exposing you to the sudden
horrifying shouts of your pursuers and the spattering of
gunfire from their rifles. You hear no other feet, none of
your companions running beside you.
The forest seems to spread out forever in exact
replica, no features, no alteration, no landmark, nowhere
to hide.
Night swallows you beneath the hooked roots of
a gnarled old tree, gathering you up in the stinking
tunnel mouth of some musky subterranean denizen, a
badger or fox. Morning comes with a soft haze of grey
light sifting through the trees and waking you to the
sound of padding footfalls on the pillow soft bedding of
pine needles that carpet the woods. The enemy troops
skulk in pairs through the undergrowth, searching for
you, hunting you. You spring from the jaws of bullet and
blade and bound toward the rising sun, heading east, for
countless hundreds of miles to the border.

* * *

A narrative with no meaning, but a narrative
that speaks of what thousands of people have
experienced throughout human history. The life of the
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guerrilla, the outlaw, the revolutionary, the partisan, the
bandit, the soldier behind enemy lines; hunted,
desperate, starved and left to fight a war without hope of
salvation. Men and women placed in these situations are
often the greatest warriors, for the human will is found at
its best when dropped in the centre of the whirlwind of
chaos.
People find themselves in the darkest of
moments. Think about the heroes who go onto autopilot
and find superhuman strength and determination in the
brief seconds all others would shy from. This is survival
and communal instinct merging and finding its most
poetic and human expression; the mother who lifts the
truck off her child, the soldier who pulls an armoured
vehicle off his comrade.
An example Id like to dwell upon briefly is that
of the British Special Forces dropped into Norway during
the Second World War. These few men were told they
would be meeting with Norwegian resistance forces and
then be led to a secret German base which was allegedly
developing plans for prototype nuclear weapons, and
needed to be shut down to further the Allied cause. The
handful of troops went out into the Norwegian wilderness
and stationed themselves out in the abyss of mountains,
forest and snow and awaited orders; orders which did not
come. They waited for months, slowly starving, living off
a practically poisonous moss they foraged off nearby
trees and rocks, in a small shack without much more than
a fire, the clothes on their backs and their skeletal
comradeship. Finally their orders came and
rendezvousing with the Norwegian resistance, they
trekked across the icy wastes and successful destroyed
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the base, with relative ease and small losses, even though
each had lost an enormous amount of weight.
Why are some people able to do such
superhuman things? Obviously there are slight nuances
of design which the human body can tap into which act as
reservoirs of inhuman ability, our muscles never properly
firing more than 30% of their tissues at any one time etc.
But humans regularly do incredible things with their
bodies to escape, fight, survive and live. We have always
done so. War presents us with a totally unique set of
problems; we thrust ourselves into a situation where we
must be harder, faster, quieter and crueler than our
enemies. However you look at the problem of war,
whatever your opinions of it, it pushes humans to their
limits and is a commendable pattern to mimic when it
comes to keeping/getting fit.
The Guerrilla Program then is designed around
best mimicking the actions and training methods of those
ancient and modern historical groups and individuals
who have mastered the human body, their surroundings,
and the ability to master others through superior mental
and physical aptitude.
We should be training like desperate soldiers
gripped in an eternal war with an enemy that neither
knows us nor hates us, but wants to control, demoralise
and eventually exterminate us nonetheless. This is the
war that countless people have fought, and it is a very
real prospect which hovers over the different nations,
populaces and peoples of this planet. Why not be
prepared for whatever the future may bring?



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The Training

Youre desperate, dehumanized, naked, cold,
wet, havent slept for days, eyes burning, head throbbing
with dehydration, the water is poisoned, the distant
thrum of a klaxon sounding your escape, the hunters
tracing your every footstep, every drop of blood, every
hair a signpost for the hounds at your heels.
Youre alive, keen eyed, ferocious, your nerves
aching taut like a coiled spring, ready to bolt at any
moment; sleep is for the weak. You chew a button lodged
in your cheek, saliva flowing, eyebrows raised, razor
sharp for the sound of a cracking twig behind you. Bark,
leap, sprint, hands around his throat, silence, the dull
splintering crack of a broken neck. Dragging the body a
few hundred yards into a ditch, strip it, pull the clothes
onto your shivering gaunt frame, slip the gun into your
trousers. Off again, off into the woods, into the night,
faster than the hounds can keep up.
What are you training for?
Why are you here? Do you want something
more? Do you want something different? Because here it
is.
Dont train in your Nike running shoes with your
running shorts and your Lycra vest. Dont train with a
water bottle in one hand and a stopwatch in the other.
Train barefoot, run in the snow and the ice, swim a
partially frozen river. Run naked. Run with the biting
cold between your teeth, run with the wind in your hair
and the driving rain beating you to the ground. Train
with a knife in one hand and a brick in the other.
The Guerrilla Training is laid out in the form of a
series of workouts in the Training Manual at the end of
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this book. The patterns of your workouts are entirely
down to your position in the grading system (Paides,
Paidiskoi, Hebontes and Praetorians) and are based solely
on your own abilities and their evolution. It is not the
workouts that matter, it is the attitude and grit with
which you face them. The Guerrilla takes every waking
moment as potentially his last, you should greet every
push up, pull up, squat and burpee as if it was the last
movement you do before you go rapping on the gates of
hell.

R.E.A.L.

The final aspect of the Guerrilla Training which
needs to be looked at is the application of each of the
workouts to four criteria, so that each part of the
program encourages an all-round and concrete mastery
of the subject, as opposed to illusory and impractical
specification.
This application is called R.E.A.L. which stands
for Realism, Endurance, Agility and Loyalty (or Love). We
will deal with each one in turn.

Realism

Above all else this is the core focus around which
the Centurion Method should cycle, even if youre doing
one of the many strength and power workouts which
involve classical weightlifting moves like deadlifts,
thrusters, squats etc. Realism is something which has
been all but abandoned in the modern gymnasium.
People learn to run by running on a treadmill not tarmac,
they learn to cycle by using a stationary bike not a
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mountain bike; they learn to lift heavy awkward objects
by lifting static weights on cable machines. Obviously this
is neither practical nor realistic.
The Centurion Method requires that every
workout be applicable across the board of required
movements. So even if youre doing a routine which is
heavy on press ups, pull ups, squats and lunges, and it
feels like a typical met-con circuit style workout, it
should be applicable anywhere and that is the difference.
When we design a workout of classic bodybuilding
aesthetic moves, the workout is doable with a log, a rock,
a scaffolding pole and a barbell, no matter what the
weight or the gym youre using.
If you find yourself slipping back into the routine
of working out at the gym and using loads of equipment it
is solely because of association. You just need to get
outside, lift some real objects and remember why you
started the Centurion Method in the first place, because
we encourage real fitness in the real world.

Endurance

Once we have the solid foundation of realism laid
down for all the workouts, the next step is to create an
adequate level of endurance. Far too many modern
workout systems and splits rely upon doing legs one
day and back another day, shoulders the next and
abs the next etc. In real life your body wants to work as
a unified whole and fire all the required muscles at the
same time. Compound movements are therefore
preferred over isolations, no matter what the desired
outcome. If you want to do back one day and
shoulders another, the muscles used on the previous
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workout should not be isolated out so they are not still
required to fire along with the rest of the body. To
alleviate this potential problem, every isolation focused
workout which is trying to increase muscle mass on
upper body or increase strength on the limbs should (and
does) include lots of compound explosive exercises, like
pull ups, burpees, deadlifts, squats and so on.
Endurance is something a huge amount of people
ignore, for sheer want of looking good with over 100kg on
a barbell or more than 50kg on a dumbbell for some
potentially fatal exercises, for ego and little else. If you
really want to get better you start from the beginning and
work your way up. No one would start their fitness
program by doing the London Marathon without any
training before-hand. Its the same with weightlifting and
explosive exercise programs; you should be prepared for
week in week out, workout after workout of burpees, pull
ups, press ups and little else. This is the foundation of
endurance, it is the same for everything, start small,
become a god and then advance and exceed.

Agility

Much like endurance, agility is a side-lined and
maligned subject among most fitness obsessives. Im not
talking about mixing a few MMA workouts or explosive
clap press ups into your strength training workouts, Im
talking about the fundamental use of your body for the
basic needs of survival. This is the Archaic workout
system at its most basic urge. For survival and nothing
else, can you lift your body weight? Great. But can you
swing your legs up, wrap them around a branch or beam
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and then pull yourself up and over to safety? That is what
is truly important about agility.
We focus on yogic moves, the military and
Kshatriya aspects of the yoga of Old India, not the arty
farty new stuff, the basic simplistic and fundamental
moves which warriors used to stretch out their limbs
before and after battle. There is nothing girly or wimpy
about stretching and being flexible, it is fundamental,
inherent, human beings are designed to be agile, limber,
flexible, we dance, we jump, we climb, its what we are.
What we do is focus on all of these aspects, you
should be getting big and doing agility/flexibility
exercises to remain lean, defined and functional.

Loyalty

The final element of R.E.A.L. has nothing to do
with your physical form and everything to do with the
other side of the triangle, the spiritual and emotional
elements. These are nearly always overlooked by modern
fitness professionals, and are actually probably one of the
most important aspects. The Barbarians, Romans,
Spartans, all military institutions throughout history
have emphasised the communal side of physical training,
especially for war. Community was one of the strongest
binding factors for ancient human beings, far and above
any other driving force. Horses, dogs, steel, war, all of
these things gave the tribe cohesion and focus, but it was
their relationships with each other that were the glue
that held the whole thing together.
Nothing is different in our gym/fitness situation.
When you go somewhere and workout, youre exposing
yourself to the people around you. This is why 99% of
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people dont even go to the gym, theyre scared of being
laughed at or judged, they want to be supported and
encouraged, but there is no support structure. CrossFit
gyms have stumbled across this aspect and it is one of the
reasons the franchise is so successful, because the clients
who pay month in month out for the use of the Box feel
like they are part of something. The same is true of
martial arts clubs; they make the client feel like he is part
of some ancient tribal feudal community that is fighting
for its survival against a wild and dangerous outside
world. It is pure genius, even if they didnt mean for it to
happen.
What we need to replicate is the communal
aspect of the ancient tribal/feudal societies and their
martial cultures. Which is actually quite easy, again,
humans innately want to do it.
If youre training at the gym, talk to people,
make friends, go with a friend and do the same workout.
If youre training outdoors, bring friends round, make a
thing of it. Instead of going drinking on a Friday night,
bring friends round and do a workout then go drinking
when youre all sore and aching. Pain and suffering bonds
people of the same persuasion. Create new bonds.










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PRIMAL MOVEMENT PROGRAM

The Theory

Travel again, backwards this time instead of
laterally. Well go back into a long forgotten and much
maligned stage of our history. Take the steppes for
example

* * *

You are crawling on your belly through the
sparse undergrowth in a frost dampened pine forest,
silent, breathing low and quiet. The tip of your flint spear
digging into your thigh, the thin cord of stretched gut
tugging at your neck as you slink through the rot
darkened mud. Before you creep three men, behind you
another two and a young initiate, all silent, all ashen
faced, all gaunt with hunger and weak with fatigue.
A hand is raised up front and you all freeze,
dawn hinting through the gloom, the ominous shadows of
the pack keening and sniffing the air. The rumbling
breaths of your prey are deafening as they begin to
trudge noisily in your direction, will they see you, will
they attack you? Your hairs stand up on your neck, the
cool wind dusts your exposed legs with light rain and the
fog begins to thicken as the morning draws in.
Somewhere a lone wolf howls mournfully, the air is dank
and ripe with tension.
With a screech of sudden violence your
companion leaps to his feet and bellows the cry of action,
hurling his spear through the air towards the lead boar,
his screech of horror alerting the rest of the pack to your
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presence. You are on your feet before you can think, the
spear slippery and awkward in your sluggish adrenaline
jolted hands, several of the young male boar are running
among your group, tusks smashing into broad thighs and
exposed innards. You swing the flint tip towards a
snorting male who seems enlivened and engaged by the
fight. Without pausing to think you bolt off into the
darkness, the screams of violence behind you seeming to
suddenly quieten as the pack separates and your brothers
are trampled. You hear no other feet, none of your
companions running beside you.
The forest seems to spread out forever in exact
replica, no features, no alteration, no landmark, nowhere
to hide.
The full heat of the day thrusts you into the high
branches of a gnarled old tree, gathering you up so that
no predator can catch your scent on the breeze. Evening
comes with a soft haze of orangey light sifting through
the trees and alerting you to the sound of padding
footfalls on the pillow soft bedding of pine needles that
carpet the woods. Your father and one of your uncles are
stalking through the woods, they look bloodied and
dejected. You tiptoe along the length of a curved branch
and drop down to the forest floor, their glances of shame
cutting deeper than any spear.

* * *

This narrative speaks of every human being
across time and the globe, regardless of race, colour or
creed. The human being has stalked the natural gloom of
his environ for millennia, first with bare hands and teeth,
then with spear and bow, and recently with bullet and
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blade, but the hunter and the hunted remain the same.
The human animal has foraged through bushes and
glades for fruit, berry and vegetable since his first gaited
upright steps. He has in various fashions hunted and
trapped his neighbours in the animal kingdom with
ferocious tenacity and indomitable will. It is testament to
our sheer force of determination and unstoppable hunger
that we have now reached the point where we may
possibly push ourselves near to extinction by destroying
the very habitat in which we live. Evolution has crowned
us as masters of our environment and therefore by
default, the very destiny of the planet on which we live.
Ironic really that our destructive nature may well be what
destroys us.
From the point of view of our fitness model, what
can we take from our ancestry of war, bloodshed,
violence and a mastery of the skills of hunting? Well, let
us briefly look at the hunter-gatherer in his natural
environ.
He is lean, quick witted, sharp as a knife, fast on
his feet, a good climber and incredibly agile and flexible.
Why then should a modern potentially sedentary being
mimic this behaviour and attempt to gain some of that
flexibility and enduring muscular aptitude for himself?
Well, that agility transfers directly into our modern life.
We are very lazy creatures in the west and we tend to
enjoy sitting around and eating more than anything else,
so our muscles, bones, tendons and organs, like those of
any other animal who sits doing nothing, begin to
atrophy and die. The old maxim is true: use it or lose it.
If we train in flexibility and endurance for
agility, our bones strengthen, our muscles lengthen, our
explosive power increases and general fitness shoots
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through the roof. Human beings are incredibly versatile
and a vague gymnastic ability goes a long way in aiding
the recovery of the more explosive and classically weight
lifting muscles. If you can do the splits and really deep
lunges then when you do really heavy squats or explosive
leaps your limbs will recover faster and with less fatigue.
There is that other looming spectre of the fitness
world as well, injury. It seems everyone gets injured these
days for one reason or another. Stretched hamstrings,
snapped tendons, exhaustion, fatigued muscles. All of
these problems are due to incorrect use of the muscle and
then sudden correct use in an incorrect environment. The
most common situation we hear about is runners,
running awkwardly and with a strange gait all the time
for long distances, then suddenly running for real and
tearing something. If you use the muscle in the wrong
way all the time and never stretch it out or do anything
to make it flexible and capable of perfect flexion and
extension then it will break.
Primal training strips everything back to its most
basic elements, everything is slow, fixed, controlled and
focussing on the use of the limb in the correct manner.

The Training

Part of the job of the drastic moving forward of
fitness methods is the understanding of its cyclical or
spherical nature. New ideas are inevitable, new fads, new
methods, new programs, new shortcuts, they will come
and go, but certain elements will weather the storm no
matter what happens. To paraphrase philosophical
theory, one way of understanding this is to imagine a cue
ball on a snooker table. If you put a black dot on one side
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and then rolled the ball at random away from yourself,
eventually the black dot would touch the surface of the
table, and then at a different point it would touch the table
again, but with the ball somewhere else. Nietzsche
described this loose idea as a conception of time, of
advancement and inevitable return.
From the point of view of our fitness goals,
human beings have always kept fit through work, not by
choice but by necessity, for survival. As we have aged and
become weaker through our lack of physical work, we
have started to need to keep fit in gyms and with ever
quicker and more efficient fitness programs. As the ball
rolls forward we will inevitably return to previous
methods as these fancy modern fads fall away, proving
themselves useless through their lack of viable and useful
results.
We need to create new words for old ways and
new ways of describing and working the same program,
in the most bizarre fashion the most ancient method
becomes the shocking new idea that the outdated fitness
fanatics cant get to grips with.
This Archaic or Primal training should encourage
you to train like you would have trained and moved in
primordial Africa, ancient Egypt, barbaric Rome. It should
access those most basic urges and desires of the human
animal. Let us keep it simple, flexible, agile and
dangerous.






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THE IRON LAW

Firstly, let us make one thing clear, this law has
many names, but it is a law of nature, we can
overcomplicate things, we can sentimentalise things, we
can apply all the moral laws of men and society to nature,
but she will not yield. When thrust into the face of our
mother, all inability and lack of preparedness will be
suddenly exposed to the light of evolution, with nowhere
to hide, few would survive even one night under the
stars.
I call it the Iron Law, which is a mix of different
versions snatched from popular culture and philosophy,
but I will touch on a couple.

Iron Price from Game of Thrones by George
R.R. Martin, this is the concept of the Iron
Islanders, that things can be bought with the
Gold Price i.e. money or wealth or influence of
any sort, and then those same things can be
bought with the Iron Price i.e. taken by force
of blade, bow or brawn.
Riddle of Steel from the Conan the Barbarian
films, not strictly present in the books of Robert
E. Howard, but definitely a theme he would have
agreed with. Conans father tells him as a young
boy that he cannot trust women, friends, foes or
anything else, but he can trust steel (swords,
knives, shields).
Might is Right/Survival of the Fittest The most
philosophical representation of the idea came
with the book Might is Right by Ragnar
Redbeard (clearly a pen name). Regardless of
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argument about authorship, the book deals with
the application of social Darwinism in its
simplest (and by extension) most aggressively
abhorrent forms.
Ironmaster I am your master. What was yours
now is mine. I have power of life and death over you.
And my law is this weapon which I have called, Iron.
From now on you shall live under the Law of Iron.
Ironmaster (the French Film)
I would encourage everyone reading this book to
explore these sources in full and remember to keep your
natural, bullish, blood and broken sword head on and
ignore the immediate reactions of your socially
conditioned 21
st
century sensibilities.
So, what am I saying here? What is the Iron Law
and how does it relate to fitness? Well, a quick quote from
a Robert E. Howard story; Conan is in a boat on his way
somewhere and the boatswain casually drops into
conversation -
Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
Civilization is unnatural. It is a whim of circumstance. And
barbarism must always ultimately triumph.
Nothing could better describe the Iron Law in my
view. The idea that civilisation is the crowning glory of
mankind, that without cities, without the internet,
without the media, politicians, economy, society blah,
blah, blah, we would all be skin wearing savages skulking
over crude fires in the mouths of caves is not only blatant
lies, it is reprehensible propaganda on the part of the
ruling classes.
Humanity clawed its way through the filth of our
evolution with tooth and fingernail, broken and bloodied,
by fighting and mastering each other and ourselves.
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When first we glimpsed the glories of science and
technology it was through the lens of peace and large
civilisation, those early pioneers could have never known
that their technological discoveries would herald the end
of mankind at our own hands.
If we are to move forward it must be on ancient
lines, the old paths if you will. But these old paths must
be the ones trod most frequently. Superiority in physical
stature and ability is the name of the game and the Iron
Law has and always will dictate the survival of the
species.
Now, when we apply this to fitness the maxim
rings true for every circumstance. The reason you have
not had the results you want in your weight loss program,
your muscle gain program, your agility and flexibility
program, whatever youve been trying (or not trying as
the case may be) is because youre coming into the
situation as a sensible, 21
st
century human being with an
iPhone in his pocket and a 45 Nike training vest on.
Leave all of that at the door, and invoke the Iron Law.
There is a famous quote from Arnold
Schwarzenegger, For me life is continuously being hungry.
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to
move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. This is where
were coming from. When you walk into the gym,
whatever youre planning on doing to keep fit, lose weight
or build muscle, you should do it with conquest and
victory in mind. The Iron Law covers every aspect of your
lifestyle, inside and outside of the gym, wherever you
choose to work out.
We need to alter the way we perceive and approach each
other in the fitness environment, I know weve covered
this before, but from the point of view of the Iron Law, if
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you go into the gym, the woods or your garage and have
aimed to do so many reps and sets of a specific exercise,
you better damn well do them, or you leave a weakling,
defeated, a failure. You set that goal for yourself, so
succeed, you are your own worst enemy and your own
dictator all at once. Be the Centurion, discipline yourself,
be cruel, do not let yourself lie and justify weakness. Be a
human.
We will end with a quote from Liber Al by Aleister
Crowley, and I personally feel nothing should drive you to
strive further and aim higher than realising that we stand
at a crossroads as a species and a generation. We move
away from the errors of the past and onward, glorious,
crowned in sweat, with bloodied knuckles and bruised
muscles.
Now let it be first understood that I am a god of War
and of Vengeance. I shall deal hardly with them. Choose ye an
island! Fortify it! Dung it about with enginery of war! I will give
you a war-engine. With it ye shall smite the peoples; and none
shall stand before you. Lurk! Withdraw! Upon them! This is the
Law of the Battle of Conquest: thus shall my worship be about
my secret house.











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ONE GRIMACE AT A TIME

Well, here we are, the end of this road and the
beginning of yours. Id like to finish with a final chapter
on changing lives, to reiterate for the final time before
you begin your training program, what it is youre aiming
for and what it is the Centurion Method hopes to achieve
through you.
Nietzsche spoke well before his time on the
death of morals and their arbitrary and pointlessly
cultural application. One of the most brilliant and easily
applicable ideas he wrote on was the Ubermensch, loosely
translated as overman or superman but expressing
something deeper, an idea of a future human (or human
evolutionary goal) which has utterly overcome the
pettiness of our current and historical humanity and has
excelled to something greater.
"I teach you the overman. Man is something that shall
be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings
so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you
want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the
beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A
laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be
just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful
embarrassment... Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche)
To not put it too bluntly we can see something of
this creature in ourselves, in the modern generation
which has begun to march from every slum, city,
wilderness and island of this planet, in the very
backwaters of creation, a new species is emerging, one
which is violently and expressively surpassing what
humans have achieved before. Throwing off the apish
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concerns of yesteryear and moving gloriously toward
some pristine Luddite tinged dystopia. We can only hope.
What the Centurion Method sincerely hopes to
do through you is to have a hand in this evolution of the
human species. What better motivation for your exercise
and study than that you could be contributing to your
children being better humans. Not morally better, not
physically or intellectually superior, but simply better in
whatever fields of endeavour they may happen to find
themselves in.
We have to develop a new human aspiration, give
rise to a free thinking and libertarian species of godlike
warrior poets. Not godlike in the moralistic or fatalistic
sense, but godlike in their physicality, their impartiality
and their superiority over themselves and their
ancestors. As this creature evolves in you, as your
muscles grow, your heart enlarges, your lung capacity
increases, the mitochondria in your blood increase, your
brain capacity increases, you are more able to think, to
feel, to evolve towards something greater than what you
already are.
Physical perfection is something that has become
maligned and ignored by the majority of the human herd,
in an age of politically correct acceptance of what is
frankly nothing more than illness and spiritual hernia. If
you wake up and look in the mirror and see something
you dont like, or something you want to change, then
change it. That is but the beginning of a process which
should see you becoming exactly who were born to be.
Fitness and the metaphorical change which
occurs in the body through the change in the psyche,
therefore becomes the highest form of worship of the
divine. Once more we remember the Centurion Methods
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patron god, Crom. It is unwise to call upon Crom, he
sends only death and destruction from his towers in the
mountains. But he sends such trauma to encourage us to
grow, he is the disciplinary force booming down from the
heights of our past and future, he is the collective
conscious of our ancestors and our descendants urging us
to become everything we have ever or will ever be.
Tense, exhausted, stretched, heaving breaths in
ragged lungs, excited, pumped full of endorphins,
hormones throbbing through swollen muscles, taut and
aware. This is our God; sex, violence, death, growth. Go
forth and evolve.
















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THE WORKOUTS

This manual has been designed to change your
physical form. Make sure you have read the entirety of
the previous section fully and understand its contents.
The evolution and adaptation of the modern human mind
is founded in philosophy first and physicality second. Far
too much emphasis is laid upon numbering, documenting
and scaling workouts with reps, sets, diets, calories,
nutrients, distances and weights and far too little is
rested upon the alteration of the mind for the benefit of
the participant.
The Centurion Method has scant concern for how
you look, if you want to get a beach hard body with solid
six pack abs, a wide flared pair of pecs with good strong
triangular lats sculpting down towards your picture
perfect glutes and quads, you can piss off to Mens Health
and use their infinite wisdom in creating Barbie dolls out
of a demi-god that has existed since the Pleistocene era.
Yes you will look good; if youre a man you will
gain muscle, you will lose weight, you will sculpt and tone
your physique and you will start to look like the god-man
that you are, and if youre a woman, you will lose weight
from your ass and your thighs and your belly and you will
get toned abs, tight arms and shapely legs. But our main
point here is that we dont care about that. The aesthetic
alteration is a side effect of the physical aspect in general.
You will get faster, stronger, fitter and harder through
this process and that is the point.
Lets take a brilliant example I came up with of
the difference between the Centurion Method and what I
call the Barbie Doll Method.
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Two shops on the British high street, both are
registered with the local council as selling clothing to the
public, both sell shoes, coats, hats, jackets, shirts, trousers
etc. and both are regularly busy with their specific
clientele. One is a hiking/mountaineering shop like
Blacks and the other is a fashion clothing shop like
Topman. Lets say a guy walked into the hiking shop and
started trying on different mountaineering jackets with
different boots specifically designed for a specialised type
of climbing, he turns to the shop assistant and says,
Hey do these boots look good with this jacket?
The shop assistant has never been asked this
question before in relation to the coats and shoes, he is
normally asked about togs and thickness of boot heel and
if the shoes come with a guarantee that covers walking
1,000 miles in 3 years. He pauses for a moment looking at
the customer and says,
Well, um, yeah I suppose they look good
together
Now, lets say a different guy walks into Topman
and starts trying on jackets and shoes in the same way, he
doesnt look at himself in the mirror, he just starts
squeezing the bottom of the shoe and feeling the
thickness of the jacket, he turns to the Topman employee
and says,
In your opinion, will this jacket keep me warm
in minus 10 degrees on the side of a Turkish mountain?
Ive got a climb in six weeks and I need some good hiking
equipment?
In this instance the shop assistant wouldnt have
a single thing to say, in most cases he would probably just
tell the customer to go down the road to the hiking shop
and buy a coat from them, as he wouldnt trust himself to
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give the correct advice in this situation. And that would
be the right thing for him to do, because anyone buying a
coat from Topman to go hiking in would be mental.
My point is, these two shops are highly
specialised, they might not look like it, but they are. The
hiking shop has no real idea about fashion; it doesnt
really concern itself with such things beyond basic
understanding of how to market its product to the
general populace. The same is true of the fashion shop, it
doesnt care if its product only lasts one season, most
fashionable folks will come in next year and buy a new
winter coat by then anyway. The difference is in their
purpose, what their clothes are for, and that is the point.
The Centurion Method will make you look good,
absolutely it will, no doubt about that, but were not in
the business of making people look good, thats not what
were here for. In the same breath we can say without
doubt, the gyms, magazines, supplement companies and
fitness brands are not really all that concerned with
making a successful and physically able human being out
of you. All theyre really concerned about is weight loss,
toning, sculpting and shaping. Fitness First are the least
ashamed of this fact. 50% of their clientele sign up for
gym memberships to lose weight, to market anything
other than weight loss to the majority of its clients is
therefore commercial suicide. If they started marketing
and altering their product for athletes and survival
fanatics theyd be mad, it would result in mass exoduses
from their gyms and a failure for their marketing teams.
The same is true for the Centurion Method; we are here
to make you fit, able and prepared for whatever life may
throw at you, whatever the stimulus, whatever the
outcome.
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So, when engaging in this program, we
encourage you, read the main bulk of the other book first,
then begin this system of training, you will honestly
benefit from it a whole lot more if your perspective on
training and the human body system has been altered.
That book has been designed to assault the senses and get
questions and ideas bouncing around that appear to be
self-evident, but we are not looking for political, social,
philosophical converts here, we just want you thinking
and asking questions about yourself, your history and
above all your future. Then we can continue here and
change your life.
The workouts and systems in this manual are
designed to be partially cherry picked from and partially
used as a skeleton around which you would build your
own workout program.

Designing Your Program

The first step in this highly specialised and
personal process must be in designing your program of
fitness to reflect your specific goals. In theory you could
work your way through all of the workouts from
beginning to end doing one after another, but your
fitness would probably suffer due to the immense amount
of pressure put upon it at different times, basically it
would be pointless.

Fitness Testing

To accurately place yourself on the scale which
the Centurion Method uses, you need to do a basic fitness
test, which consists of a few basic timed exercises.
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EXERCISE DESCRIPTION TIME/RESULT
1.5 Mile
Cooper Test
Timed
Run 1.5 miles as
fast as you can

Pull Ups 1
Minute
As many pull ups
as possible

Press Ups 1
Minute
As many press ups
as possible

Plank Timed Plank position for
as long as possible
and record time


When you have completed the above you should get a
result which places you in one of four categories.

Paides - Beginner

EXERCISE DESCRIPTION
1.5 Mile Cooper Test 16 mins +
Pull Ups 1 Minute Less than 5
Press Ups 1 Minute Less than 10
Plank Timed 50 seconds or less

Paidiskoi - Intermediate

EXERCISE DESCRIPTION
1.5 Mile Cooper Test Under 14 mins
Pull Ups 1 Minute Between 10 - 15
Press Ups 1 Minute Between 15 - 20
Plank Timed Between 1:15 1:45


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Hebontes - Expert

EXERCISE DESCRIPTION
1.5 Mile Cooper Test Under 12 mins
Pull Ups 1 Minute Between 16 - 20
Press Ups 1 Minute Between 21 - 30
Plank Timed Between 1:50 2:30

Praetorian - Elite

EXERCISE DESCRIPTION
1.5 Mile Cooper Test Under 10 mins
Pull Ups 1 Minute More than 25
Press Ups 1 Minute More than 40
Plank Timed More than 4mins

The fundamental alteration we have made to the
Centurion Method since its initial creation is the way that
these grading levels work. They do not affect the
frequency of your workouts, nor do they require you to
behave differently to the upper or lower grades, the only
difference is that you require more of yourself and your
fellows. By removing the element of expectation (or lack
of) to the grading we allow the user to work as often or as
little as they please, the only person judging you, being
you.

Selecting the Workouts

The workouts in the next section of the book are
divided up into three major groups, with some overlap,
but they generally work along simple lines. There are
roughly 50 of them, with a slight bias towards Strength
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and Power, because that is the bread and butter of a
warriors lifestyle.
The way this has been worked out is along
classical roleplaying/board-game lines, we want to get it
into your head that this is an adventure, hell if you want
to give yourself a bloody fake name when you do
Centurion Method, go for it! We encourage any madness,
any sincere absurdity, any weirdness; the Centurion
Method is based upon it, built on it. Dress up like a wild
savage when you work out, fuck everyone else.
The workouts are divided in the following
manner
Finns Wolves (explosive/circuit workouts)
Based upon the Irish Celtic mythical hero Finn
McCool and his warrior band the Fianna. The
recruits to the Fianna had to prove themselves
with insane feats of physical ability involving
running, jumping, climbing and fighting.
Conans Kozaks (strength/power workouts)
Based upon Conan the Cimmerian created by
Robert E Howard. His Kozaks were the wild
hillmen who fought with him in the mountains
against sorcerers and Nemedian knights.
Romulus Legions (endurance workouts) Based
upon the Legions of Rome, specifically those
legions engaged in combat in northern Europe,
who had to endure cold, long distances, general
pain and misery and then die in battle.
When it comes to the Primal workouts, when you add
them to your weekly split (which of course can be altered
to your commitments or lifestyle), you should just do
them in consecutive order, and when you get to the end,
come back and repeat the cycle. Each one should be
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pushing your agility and flexibility along specific lines so
cycle them accordingly.
Again one of those fundamental alterations we
have made in this collected version of the Centurion
Method is this premise of workout selection. Those of you
who have the original manual will know it featured 100
workouts, and you were required to select them at
random depending on your schedule. We have this time
around decided to focus on the creation of a more select
collection of workouts which allow the user to see the
different styles of workout within Conan/Finn/Romulus
and then create their own workouts.
One of the major problems with giving out
workouts to an expectant beginner is the increasing and
obsessive reliance on the further creation and
dissemination of those workouts by an HQ. Centurion
Method had/has no HQ, the creation of an environment
to workout in and the creation of the workout itself was
always supposed to be organic and down to the user.
These workouts then become hints and signposts, not
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THE GUERILLA PROGRAM

As explained in the first section, the Guerrilla
Program of the Centurion Method is focused on cycling
the muscles used during workouts which should strike all
major groups and create a creature that can effectively do
anything. We covered everything above in terms of
tapering and altering so make sure if you start a workout
and it is too easy, alter it, and the same goes for finding
every single movement impossible.























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FINNS WOLVES

Hercules

Style

10 rounds +

Workout

30 second sprint as hard as possible
1 minute sprint as hard as possible
20 x strict pull ups
20 x jump squats



















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That Awful Sneer

Style

10 rounds

Workout

5 x strict pull ups
20 x push ups
20 x squats
10 x burpees





















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Cultist

Style

5 rounds

Workout

35 x burpees
2 minute plank
25 x kettlebell/dumbbell/rock swings
20 x push ups
15 x pull ups




















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Sword of Surtr

Style

3 rounds +

Workout

60 x burpees
20 x press ups
15 x jump squats
3 minute plank





















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The Great God Pan

Style

3 rounds +

Workout

30 x decline press ups
30 x press ups
30 x divebomb press ups
30 x wide grip press ups
30 x close grip press ups




















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The Mask of Death

Style

15 round circuit

Workout

Using bar or log, and two dumbbells or rocks -

5 x deadlifts
5 x press ups
10 x flyes
10 x burpees



















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Sculpting Gods

Style

10 round circuit

Workout

10 x dumbbell flyes
10 x press ups
5 x pull ups
1 minute plank





















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The Shattered Lance

Style

10 round circuit

Workout

Using rock/dumb/kettle -

10 x rock swings
10 x military press
30 x jump squats
1min plank
5 x pull ups


















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Athena

Style

8 round circuit

Workout

Use log or bar -

10 x pull ups
10 x thrusters
10 x military press
30 x press ups



















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Dying Well

Style

Three rounds +

Workout

30 x dumbbell swings
20 x burpees
20 x leg raises on bar
20 x 2 dumbbell lunge walk
10 x pull ups
1 minute plank
30 x squat pick ups
30 x press ups
















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CONANS KOZAKS

Arise and Conquer

Style

20 round circuit

Workout

5 x strict press ups
5 x strict pull ups





















103

Goliath the Philistine

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Using kettle/dumbbell/rock

4 x 10 bicep curls (each side)
4 x 10 farmers raise (each side)
With weight held down by hips with arm straight, bend
elbow to pull weight up to chest and then let down, one
rep. Repeat.
4 x 10 high pulls (each side)
Holding weight in front of you, down by groin, pull up
towards your chest, descend and repeat.
4 x 10 skull crushers
Holding weight behind your head with bent elbows,
straighten arms to lift weight above you, repeat.
4 x 10 rows (each side)
Holding weight down by groin, bend at the hips so torso
is at 45 degrees and pull weight towards chest. Repeat.
4 x 10 Clean and Press
2 x 25 press ups







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The Beastman Liveth

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Using a heavy log/bar -

10 x press ups
5 x pull ups
3 x 5 deadlifts
3 x 5 squats
4 x 5 thrusters
3 x 5 clean and press
3 x 5 bent over row
30 x burpees














105

The Flail

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Using rock/kettle/dumbbell

Superset no.1 x 3 (so do the following three exercises
with no rest, three times)
10 x press ups
10 x bent over row
10 x flyes (each side)
Superset no.2 x 3
10 x bicep curls
10 x thrusters
20 x burpees
Superset no.3 x 3
25 x bent over row
25 x press ups










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Indras Spear

Style

One timed run through

Workout

4 x 20 log overhead press
4 x 10 log thrusters
4 x 10 log seated military press
4 x 10 swing to curl
4 x 10 flyes
4 x 20 farmer raises



















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The Kurgan

Style

Two rounds +

Workout

Using 10kg sledgehammer and log/bar

100 x sledgehammer swings (50 each side)
50 x thrusters
50 x squats
50 x press ups



















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Poisoned Mead

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Using log/bar and two rocks/dumbbell/kettlebells

2 x 20 press ups

Superset no.1 x 3 (following exercises back to back with
no rest, three times)
20 x thrusters
20 x bar rows
20 x dumbbell rows (each side)
Superset no.2 x 3
20 x military press
20 x bar rows
20 x dumbbell overhead press
Superset no.3 x 3
20 x bar bench press
20 x dumbbell bench press
20 x press ups







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The Kali Yuga

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Using log/bar and rock/dumb and sledgehammer

Superset no.1 using sledgehammer and log (3 exercises
back to back no rest)
25 x sledgehammer swings (swap sides each
round)
20 x press ups
20 x bench press
Superset no.2 using rock/dumb
20 x bicep curls
20 x squat pick ups
20 x thrusters
Superset no.3 using log
20 x thrusters
20 x weighted squats
20 x military press








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Hardship

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Using rock/dumb/kettle and a sledgehammer

Superset no.1 x 3 (three exercises back to back, no rest,
three times)
25 x rock swings
25 x military press
25 x bicep curls
Superset no. 2 x 3
25 x dumbbell swings
25 x bench press
25 x high pulls
Superset no.3 x 3
50 x sledgehammer swings (each side)
25 x press ups










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The Pyramids of Imtep-Ahon

Style

5 round circuit

Workout

Using log or bar

20 x thrusters
10 x cleans
5 x military press




















112

Wider than Beowulf

Style

3 rounds +

Workout

20 x press ups
30 x wide grip press ups
10 x commando press ups
5 x divebomb press ups
5 x decline press ups

Then using a rock or dumbbell
20 x bicep curls
30 x bicep curls
5 x military press














113

Steel and Gore

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Using a rock/dumb/kettle

Superset no.1 x 3 (three exercises back to back, no rest,
three times)
100 x bicycle punches
25 x push ups
Superset no.2 x 3
30 x bicep curls
30 x military press
30 x bicep curl to military press
Superset no.3 x 3
30 x squat pick ups
30 x thrusters
30 x one armed pick ups (15 each side)










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Centaur

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Superset no.1 x 3
25 x dumbbell lunges
30 x squat pick ups
20 x burpees
Superset no.2 x 3
20 x deadlifts
25 x 2 one legged situps
1 minute plank
Superset no.3 x 3
20 x press ups
10 x thrusters
5 x pull ups












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ROMULUS LEGIONS

Kingdom of the Dwarves

Style

One timed run through

Workout

One minute of the exercise with no rest between sets, rest
when youre done -

Squats
Mountain climbers
Swings of a medium weight
Divebomb push ups
Jump lunges
Bicycle punches
Side lunges
Clap push ups
Pull ups










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Hindu Kush

Style

Two round circuit

Workout

1 minute skipping
20 x divebomb push ups
1 minute box jumps
5 x burpee pull ups
30 x tricep dips
1 minute jumping knee raises
30 x squat to lunge jumps
1 minute mountain climbers
20 x press ups
1 minute burpees
1 minute plank













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Twenty Minute Nuke

Style

One timed run through

Timing

Two minutes of each exercise

Workout

Skipping
Press ups
Bear crawl push ups
Pulse crunches
Jump squats
V fold sit ups
Tricep dips
Burpees
Pull ups
Jumping lunges










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Evil One

Style

Five round circuit

Workout

1 minute skipping
10 x bear crawls
15 x jump squats to star jump
10 x burpees
15 x burpee pull ups




















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Soil and Kin

Style

One timed run through

Workout

1 minute of each exercise -

Burpees
Plank
Jump squats
Press ups
Skipping
Burpees
Leg raises
Jump squats
Press ups
Skipping
Burpees
Plank
Jump lunges
Press ups
Skipping
Burpees
Leg raises
Jump squats
Press ups
Skipping

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Brutus

Style

Five round circuit

Workout

2 minute skipping
5 x pull ups
15 x press ups
30 x pulsing crunches
15 x burpees




















121

The Banshee

Style

One timed run through

Workout

1 minute of each exercise -

Burpees
Plank
Jump squats
Press ups
Skipping
Burpees
Leg raises
Jump squats
Press ups
Skipping
Burpees
Plank
Jump lunges
Press ups
Skipping
Then 3 rounds of
10 x pull ups
20 x swings of a 10kg weight
30 x shoulder press of a 10kg weight


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Skull Korps

Style

10 round circuit

Workout

10 x burpees
10 x press ups
20 x lunges
1 minute plank





















123

Nose in the Dirt

Style

One timed run through

Workout

1 minute of each exercise -

Plank
Bear crawl
Bunny hops
Mountain climbers
Press ups
Leg raises
Sit ups
Press ups
Shoulder row with 5kg dumbbell
Plank
Burpees
Squats










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Torture Chamber

Style

One timed run through

Workout

1 kilometre sprint
60 x weighted squats
50 x press ups
40 x weighted sit ups
30 x weighted squats
20 x press ups
10 x weighted sit ups
1 minute plank
















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On Your Feet Soldier

Style

One timed run through

Workout

Whilst wearing a 5-10kg weight vest or backpack for the
run, then take off for the exercise sets

1.5 mile run
100 x burpees
50 x press ups
50 x jump squats
1.5 mile run

















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Seven Drunken Knights

Style

One timed run through

Workout

50 x jump squats
100 x squats
25 x jump squat to lunge
100 x lunges (50 each side)
50 x jump squats
50 x burpees



















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The Wolf in Sheeps Clothing

Style

One timed run through

Timing

Record best time

Workout

1 minute plank
30 x squats
1 minute plank
30 x jump squats
1 minute plank
30 x burpees
1 minute plank
30 x burpees
1 minute plank
30 x burpees










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PRIMAL MOVEMENT

Quite in opposition to the Guerrilla program, the
Primal Movement program is aimed at taking the muscles
which have been so cruelly worked in the other workouts
and giving them a long deep stretch, with flexibility as
the main focus. What we are hoping to create is a
gymnastic agility, which coupled with the ferocious
strength and power of the Guerrilla system will result in
the classical Grecian aesthetic. There are a couple of
running workouts included which explain their primacy
and reasoning, so dont jump to conclusions, do
everything as it is prescribed.
Some of these primal/archaic workouts are
designed to strip back your humanity, pull away the
layers of the onion as it were, so ideally they should be
done alone outside, or in the privacy of your home. I live
in a quiet village in south west UK, and I genuinely stand
stark naked at my back door after a long yoga session.
Nothing, literally nothing, compares to having your bare
feet on the ground (soil if you can) and your hands in the
air, whatever the weather, with the wind in your hair and
the stars staring down at you. This is perfection, this is
our scripture, to pull away the barriers we have put up.
Be the animal.








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Long Distance Running

Style

Running

Movement

Find a point on the map or a landmark nearby
youve always wanted to visit, seen it in the distance or
signposted. Dont concern yourself with how far it is or
record any kind of distance.
Run to that point, and back again, dont stop,
keep going. When you get there do the following moves
20 x lunges, very slow and deep
20 x squats, very slow and deep
Emphasis on all of this is to get you running without a
distance or number in mind, just the destination and the
sheer joy of the flight.














130

Climbing the Mount

Style

Climbing

Movement

Go to a tree or pull up bar and do the following
30 x hand changes
Hold yourself in a classic pull up position, let go with one
hand and swap hand position, so go from an overhand to
underhand grip, or reach for another branch. Hold on
and swap the other hand, repeat this 30 times.
30 x bear crawls
Emphasis on the long slow crawl, dont worry about
perfect form, just crawl on all fours and stretch out all
the muscles used in the hand changes.
This might not seem a lot, but if youre finishing it in ten
minutes youre going too fast, repeat it a LOT slower and
really feel what youre doing, listen to your body.












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Stalking the Deer

Style

Survival practice

Movement

This workout is to simulate hunting, so you need
to get into that mindset
10 x 100 metre lunge walk
Go into a classic lunge and keep your head level, take a
lunge step forward without the head raising or bobbing,
this is even better if you do it with a partner and there
are penalties for being spotted.
10 x 100 metre squat stalk
Go into a classic squat and do the same as above, smaller
steps, keeping the head from bobbing.
Try to switch off here, pause a lot, practice being still in
nature, try not to rush through it and get home. This is
more in the mind than in the body.












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Uphill Running

Style

Running

Movement

Find a hill, no matter how big, steep, whatever, if
its a slow incline thats fine, youll just have to do it more
times, if its really steep fewer times. For an average
incline
10 x hill sprints
20 x lunges
10 x hill sprints
30 x squats
10 x hill sprints
30 x burpees















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The Dragon

Style

Jumping practice

Movement

A lot of people cant even jump to bench height
for some inbuilt fear that holds them back. So, find an
object that is at an uncomfortable height, say a stool or
bench, whatever is hard for you and do the following.
20 x box jumps
20 x squats
20 x box jumps
20 x squats
20 x boxless jumps
Remove the box to one side and jump as high as you can,
try to see how high you can jump in comparison
50 x box jumps













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Climb to the Top

Style

Running/climbing

Movement

Find a wood, mountain, hill or whatever, some
wilderness site near you. Everyone has something, even if
its a short drive away. Whether you have a steep hill or a
tall tree, climb it repeatedly. Over and over again, this is
endurance.
Feel your body, touch it, flex your muscles,
breath in your lungs. Be alive. Do what you have always
wanted to do.
And by Crom, do it well.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid
of an army of sheep led by a lion Alexander the Great










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OPERATION WEREWOLF
EXPANSION PACK
By Paul Waggener
























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TRANSMISSION #1 IRON & BLOOD

To the berserker cults spread across the diverse
nations of this planet: Remember, this is not simply a
"fitness" regime; it is a form of approach to life that has
room only for the strong and the dedicated. Constantly
overcome your own weakness with an iron will, marching
forever forward beneath the awful black banner of self-
ascendancy.
My name is Paul Waggener, called Grimnir by the
Wolves of Vinland; I am the first-named Centurion
Method Pitmaster. Located in the Appalachian bio-region
of what is currently known as the United States of
America, I preside over and participate in the rites of
ascendancy and self-transformation that make up the
training regimen of the Centurion Method.
I have been involved in physical fitness in
some shape or another, on and off, since I was a teenager-
mostly standard weightlifting, until in my early 20s I
started practicing mixed martial arts and through that,
began engaging in high intensity interval training. I have
always loved the personal challenge of any physical work,
just making it to a training session day after day, putting
in the time, seeing the results and getting past the stage
in which both mind and body rebel and try to tell you to
quit.
My main interest area since I was young is the
study of mysticism and the occult sciences, at first
worldwide, then gradually but surely narrowing down to
the Germanic and Indic traditions. The study of these
topics come with their own set of challenges, which,
although not usually physical in nature, are just as
demanding to the human psyche as any cross-training
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session. They place a strain on the mind, the Will, the
inner belief and very Self of an individual.
In many spiritual traditions, and certainly in the
Judaic ones, the body, mind, will, self and so on are split
up into the physical (generally seen as negative, sinful, or
profane) and the spiritual, that unseen force that
permeates the body and will transcend the material
world on physical death, travelling to whatever
(un)happy home the man or woman has earned with his
or her actions on this plane.
In the Germanic way of thought, this is not so.
The Lik, or physical body, is seen as one distinct but
equally important part of the soul-complex at large- the
temple or chariot wherein resides that holy fire that
energizes and gives it vitality and life. It is a thing to be
glorified, adorned and beautified, a direct manifestation
of what is within it- ideally strength, beauty, right action
and iron will. Again, this is not to say that the body has
more importance than any of the other parts, nor that
they or their development should be neglected, simply
that each is a lynchpin in the wholeness of being- all
pieces of a great work of art that must be maintained and
kept up through constant application and devotion.
I did not bring these ideas up to begin a diatribe
on Germanic spirituality necessarily- I have other
writings that deal with this topic more specifically, and
they are beyond the scope of the current work. I brought
them up to show the general flaw within the greater
world of physical fitness: it cares only for the physical. It
has no grasp on the ideas of holistic life reform- a change
that must occur through all parts of the Self. In order for
that which is without to change form and transcend its
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current state, that which is within must first be altered
and strengthened.
The Centurion Method operates with a complete
understanding of this basic principle: the human being is
altered essentially in the mind, and any program of successful
physical fitness will alter the man first, and then the body.
This approach is why I chose and have remained with CM.
The way that the Method does what it says is to
place the individual into difficult, uncomfortable
circumstances, doing difficult, uncomfortable things.
Every workout is a challenge to the will, certainly, but so
is any workout in any gym across town. What makes CM
unique is the way in which it appeals to the Primal- you
are not (usually- this will be covered later) in a gym. You
are not using hand contoured weights, nor listening to
piped-in pop music, nor lightly sweating, cooled or
heated by the central air, nor are you waiting like a
domesticated beast for the treadmill to come open while
the fashionably groomed and tanned potential eunuch
fiddles with the latest piece of technology in his
manicured hand.
You are experiencing unmediated reality. Gritty.
Dirty. Often ugly, sometimes beautiful. Dangerous and
unforgiving. You and the elements, not one against the
other, as humanity so often sees its dichotomy with
nature, but unified: the one existing within the other,
where we belong. The hardship that this style of training
brings with it is the very thing which culls from us that
softness and weakness that has been conditioned into our
very DNA for generations of civilized living. The more
we remove it, the more wild, free and untameable we
become- and this is the unveiled Truth behind the
Method that we use: it is a system of magic and
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mysticism, rooted in the primal warrior cults of the
ancient world, recognizing that a man or womans
strength comes from the primitive, the animalistic areas
of his psyche- and that through the cultivation of these
areas, we break the chains that have been placed upon us
and become our own masters.
Berserkers, Spear-Wives, Pit-Masters: we use
these terms and images to add a separation from the
mundane world in which most of us are forced to live, in
order that this separation plants a seed in the mind of the
practitioner, growing his own mythos, gradually living
less and less in the world that has been laid out for him
and more and more in the one that he creates with his
own will and action. We are creating a new world here in
fires of the old one- and the new world will be ruled by
true strength and true beauty- not the shabby
replacements we have grown accustomed to. So,
practitioners of this wondrous and terrible Art: I salute
you. Your strength makes me grow stronger.
Onward to the task at hand.

What is Operation: Werewolf?

First and foremost it is a rabid resistance to
normalcy, mediocrity and the drab, feeble world you find
yourself in. It makes you an opponent of fear, weakness,
excuses. It makes you a proponent of triumph, strength,
truth, achievement.
Operation: Werewolf manages to do this only
with a commitment from you, the operative. A
commitment to Total Life Reform- complete dedication to
the ideals and aims of the Operation itself.
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The Operation's watch-words, "Iron and Blood"
are not only indicative of an extremely aggressive
program that focuses on physical transformation through
the combined alchemy of iron weight and clean, strong
blood, but also its aim to "conquer territory," and be an
extremely visible and dominant vanguard of the
Centurion Method- taking it out of the field and backyard
and onto the city street, the public terrace, the local gym-
with the idea of competition rooted firmly in mind to
drive the operant further and further towards self-
mastery.
Operation: Werewolf is Purification through
Strength. This means that instead of spending agonizing
hours pondering the meaning of life, or the issues that
arise as part of the human condition, we pre-emptively
strike at these agonies and inflictions of the filthy world
of Man by building a strong fortification against them. We
do this first through a hardening of the body via brutal
strength and conditioning regimes- this is because we
believe that it is first in the physical realm where we
begin to build our Will, and that from here, we have a
firm foundation to bolster the Spirit. By proving to
ourselves that we possess the resolve and fortitude
required to perform these austerities, we develop
confidence in our own ability, determination to continue
on our self-ordained path, and that ferocity which is
necessary in order to maintain our course.
Those who are unable to pass this First Gate of
Op:W, that is, the Discipline of Iron, will never reach
beyond the mundane world in which they exist, for until
we master our bodies and push them to new limits, we
have no concept of our own potential and resolve.
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Because this is the first marker on the road to
becoming the beast-god, the wolf-lord, it should be
entered into with wild abandon. The aspirant should
glory in his new flesh, sacrificing his time, his weakness,
his addictions on an altar of Blood and Iron.
If you are holding this in your hands, it is
assumed that you are training with the Centurion Method
already. If you are not, begin doing so. What follows is the
driving philosophy and threefold Ordeal of Operation:
Werewolf.























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OF WOLF AND MAN: ON TRIAL AND ORDEAL

I welcome all signs that a more manly, a warlike, age
is about to begin. An age which, above all, will give honour to
valour once again. For this age shall prepare the way for one yet
higher, and it shall gather the strength which this higher age
will need one day-this age which is to carry heroism into the
pursuit of knowledge and wage wars for the sake of thoughts
and their consequences. To this end we now need many
preparatory, valorous men who cannot leap into being out of
nothingany more than out of the sand and slime of our present
civilization and metropolitanism; men who are bent on seeking
for that aspect in all things which must be overcome; men
characterized by cheerfulness, patience, unpretentiousness, and
contempt for all great vanities, as well as by magnanimity in
victory and forbearance regarding the small vanities of the
vanquished; men possessed of free and keen judgment
concerning all victors and the share of chance in every victory
and every fame; men who have their own festivals, their own
weekdays, their own periods of mourning, who are accustomed
to command with assurance and are no less ready to obey when
necessary, in both cases equally proud and serving their own
cause; men who are in greater danger, more fruitful and
happier! For, believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness
and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to LIVE
DANGEROUSLY. Build your cities under Vesuvius! Send your
ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and
yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors, as long as you cannot be
rulers and owners, you lovers of knowledge! Soon the age will be
past when you could be satisfied to live like shy deer, hidden in
the woods. At long last the pursuit of knowledge will reach out
for its due: it will want to rule and own, and you with it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a divide that exists between Wolf and
Man- it is a divide that has existed forever, a gap between
the comfort, the decadence, the weakness and the
stupidity of civilized man and the howling hunger of the
ravenous creature that lives out on the edges of the
world, seeking his prey with single-minded
determination.
This wolf aspect is a nature that some are born
with: a breed apart, always different from the herds of
glassy eyed sheep, bleating out their banal message of
apathy and enslavement with a feeble voice. His is a spirit
of Fire, of Need, of Hunger. This nature was the birth
right of the ancient hero archetype, a nearly forgotten
principle of what Man could make of himself if he could
but cast off the trappings of this rotten, weak world and
reach further.
In more recent years, not only has this divide we
spoke of lessened and blurred, it has encountered the
new threat of disappearing entirely; there is a war
currently being waged- a war against Strength, a war
against those who would become Mighty. It is an
insidious type of warfare, in which the ammunition is
mass-media, ingenious social engineering, a general
smear campaign on anything that reeks of overt
masculinity or aggression, the end goal of which is to
keep all civilians civil, to extinguish that primal ferocity
that the strong look to to uncover and encourage in
themselves and their companions.
The reason for this war is simple: those shadowy
minds that exist in their lofty positions of worldly power
will brook no competition to their thrones. Recognizing
that in order to keep what is theirs, they must foster a
mentality of meekness, cattle-like idiocy, rampant
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consumerism and child-like gullibility, they have
campaigned to champion these aspects in their populace
for year after year.
Go into an urban area and look around you. No
matter where you find yourself, in any country of the so-
called civilized world, you will find people wearing the
same clothing, listening to the same music on the same
technological devices, eating the same fast food poison
and drinking the same toxic libations in the same
franchises. Complete homogenization. Anyone who
breaks this mould is seen as pariah, looked at askance
with mistrusting eyes, reported to authorities, possibly as
a potential threat to polite society.
This is what the Way of the Wolf encourages:
In a world of the weak, the mindless, the dead spirits and
sparrow-hearted, we must be outlaws. Men and women
forged of steel and fire, with a will unbreakable and a
heros understanding that his or her life is destined for
something greater than to be another follower in the
hollow cycle of masticate, defecate, procreate,
disintegrate. We take it as an evident Truth that our life is
to be lived for us, while we are here, and that nothing and
no one can force us to live in such a fashion as we do not
wish.
So, we must look to our archetypes and heroes,
to once again widen this gap between Wolf and Man, to
take up the sword and mantle of the Conquering Spirit
and ascend above the all-pervading grey of this banal and
apathetic world. It is only through a thorough and
merciless look at our lifestyle and habit that we can begin
to make the changes necessary to transform ourselves
into Living Gods, a total Life Reform from the ground up
that alters our complete Self.
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In his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces,
(absolutely essential reading for the CM Berserker or
Spearwife) Joseph Campbell puts forth the idea that every
heroic archetype follows the same threefold path on his
road of Becoming: Withdrawal, Initiation, Return. It is my
contention that this triad should be explored and
followed as a model of personal reform, one step at a
time, until the individual, once soft and untested, is a
perfect representation of the heroic or godlike archetype
he has set out to emulate.
The first necessary movement toward this ideal
is that of withdrawal, removal, separation from the
comfort that one has grown accustomed to, from the
previously conditioned ways of thinking, from the
surroundings of softness, weakness and stupidity that
bring the would-be hero down to their level. At the first
stage of our development, we are not strong enough to
always stave these things off and so we become ensnared
by them, enmeshed in their illusory qualities or easy
comforts. Whatever archetype we look to, be it
Siddhartha or Wotan, there exists this separation period
of wandering, journeying to the underworld of the
psyche, or experiencing the dark night of the soul,
seeking to break his own limitations first by simply
discovering them.
This is perhaps one of the most important parts
of the withdrawal process, the discovery of the Self as it
actually is, not as we wish it to appear. Until we can look
inward without compromise, without mercy, dissecting
and tearing ourselves apart and examining each piece
with the cold scrutiny of ego-free honesty- we will never
know ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, and
therefore, can never move onward from our own limited
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and foolish perceptions of ourselves. The reason that this
process must be undertaken in a separation period boils
down to one word: distraction. We are in a constant state
of distraction throughout our day, some self-inflicted,
some stemming from an outer source, but it is a constant
and complete bombardment of the senses that assaults
like a poisonous fog. It is absolutely essential that at this
point in our awakening, we remove those distractions
that we have control over and seek to limit those that we
do not, by placing ourselves in a nearly unassailable
situation of hermitage or wandering for a period of time
sufficient to our goal.
We must enter into the bosom of discomfort,
shattering our own notions of what we can go without,
how much we can strip down our essentials until they are
at their barest minimum, what we can get by without. As
Campbell says,
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and
life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
After which time, of course, we realize that what
we had previously thought to be intolerable, is in fact,
completely within our realm of tolerance- we have
merely decreased our wants, our softness, to reset our
thresholds of comfort- this process is a constant one of
hardening and re-hardening.
In practical terms, this withdrawal can take
many forms. One can choose to simply fill a pack with
essentials and hit the trail, perhaps going on an
extended wilderness walk of a few weeks or more, but
certainly not less- at this point it is imperative that we
not allow ourselves to be side-tracked by the easy kill,
what some call premature enlightenment, a feeling that
often occurs early on in an ordeal of this type. One rushes
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to the conclusions he wishes to find and names them
revelations, really just his weaker self saying, lets get
through this as quickly as possible so we can return to the
comforts of home.
Another method would be to move outside of
ones usual surroundings on a permanent or semi-
permanent basis- literally moving away from the
established comfort zone, preferably into a quiet or more
secluded dwelling place where contemplation and
asceticism can occur in relative solitude.
One can even simply introduce periods of time
into his daily routine, if these others are deemed not
possible, that are solely given over to the Self, out in
nature, alone with the genius loci, whereupon he will
undergo the all-important self-study, contemplation,
disintegration of current unwanted or unhealthy
processes or philosophies and the paring down of his
non-essentials, time-wasters, mind-clutter and other
anchor-weights on his movement Upward.
During this time, we turn the aforementioned
merciless gaze on ourselves, no longer limited by the
distractions of our normal life that we had previously
been trapped by, and we destroy ourselves. To again
quote Campbell,
The agony of breaking through personal limitations
is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult,
philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the
individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-
expanding realization. As he crosses threshold after threshold,
conquering dragon after dragon, the stature of the divinity that
he summons to his highest wish increases, until it subsumes the
cosmos. Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the
cosmos to a realization transcending all experiences of form - all
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symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable
void.
This is where we begin the second part of the
process, that of Initiation. The purpose behind any
initiatory experience is for the initiate to be re-born into
a new state, a new form of existence- signifying the idea
that he has shattered a boundary of some type and has
emerged on the other side, a different being entirely.
More importantly, what we are discussing is the process
of self-initiation; not content to undergo anothers
evaluation and opinion on ourselves at this point, we act
as our own jury of peers, stating to ourselves, once we
have freed our minds and wills from conditioning and
feeble-heartedness: You are now ready for the next
phase of your own existence.
Our only question at this point becomes: What is
the next desired phase of our existence? Armed with the
knowledge of ourselves and our true desires that we have
gained during our time of withdrawal, we look to the
hero archetype, whatever our chosen template of
emulation- be it established in the lore of humanity or an
as-yet-unwritten example of strength and self-
overcoming- and we become it.
We completely and utterly immerse ourselves in
our newly chosen persona, throwing it over our spirit like
a wolf-hide, bonding with it and making ourselves one
with its every aspect, a newly self-created being of
wonder and glory.
This is not an overnight working, but an entire
lifetime of living up to that archetype which has been
chosen and created, now represented wholly by
ourselves, a re-living and re-telling of the ever-true myth
of the hero or god; we have undertaken a weighty and
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relentless endeavour on our broadening shoulders, and it
is our solemn duty to never falter on this path of the
predator, the conqueror, the champion- so that one day,
another would-be hero might follow in ours, choosing to
take up our mantle and make himself into what we once
were.
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure
alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the
labyrinth is fully known; we have only to follow the thread of
the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an
abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay
another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel
outward, we shall come to the centre of our own existence;
where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the
world.
The third and final step of this is the Return. We
are not indebted to anyone, but at this point in our lives,
now archetypes, prime examples of the bygone but now
resurrected heroism of man, it is our duty to Return to
the world of men as living proof of a breed long thought
to be dead and entombed forever.
Our Inner Fire must burn so hot and bright that
it outshines the sun. Our Will must be like the heart of the
eternal mountain- unshakeable, immovable, constant.
For good or ill, as symbols of Life or Death, Joy or
Terror, we make of ourselves Living Runes, perfect
embodiments of supreme cosmic principles, and as such,
we are an Awakening Force that will bring on the age
spoken of by Nietzsche, a warlike age about to begin.
Our deeds and self-initiation will bring on the
storm that gives birth to an age wherein it becomes
possible to live out our lives in a fashion that will make us
immortal.
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THE FERAL FRENZY: ON PHYSICAL VIOLENCE

This is something that at one time or another
finds its way into almost everyones life in some form-
Violence. The dictionarys simple definition of this word
is rough or injurious physical force, action or treatment.
There has been a great deal of discussion so far
in the growing beast that is Centurion Method about the
use of violence in the training regime; everything from
doing damage to one another with crudely fashioned
weapons to MMA style pit fighting, the descriptions of
which leave one with images of blood pouring from
wounds, noses smashed and swollen, cheekbones
punched out.
People in general seem to have an incredibly
strong reaction to the topic of violence, whether we are
discussing sanctioned matches of hand-to-hand conflict,
street fighting, or even war on a mass scale. The
emotional responses among the normal herd beasts
usually run the gamut from discomfort, shock and
disapproval to downright disgust and horror- these folks
are probably not familiar with the quote from George
Orwell that states:
Those who abjure violence can only do so because
others are committing violence on their behalf.
Even if they were, my feeling is that they would
not understand the underlying implication that it is a
violent world, even if you are not always the one directly
experiencing that violence. Our species at its most basic
level only understands violence as the final law, and even
the most bleeding-heart, non-violent people in the
world are completely reliant on that very violence they
claim to abhor each and every day to keep their precious
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system alive and well in working order. To use a large
quote from writer Jack Donovan in his essay Violence is
Golden: -
Order demands violence. A rule not ultimately
backed by the threat of violence is merely a suggestion. States
rely on laws enforced by men ready to do violence against
lawbreakers. Every tax, every code and every licensing
requirement demands an escalating progression of penalties
that, in the end, must result in the forcible seizure of property
or imprisonment by armed men prepared to do violence in the
event of resistance or noncompliance. Every time a soccer mom
stands up and demands harsher penalties for drunk driving, or
selling cigarettes to minors, or owning a pit bull, or not
recycling, she is petitioning the state to use force to impose her
will. She is no longer asking nicely. The viability of every family
law, gun law, zoning law, traffic law, immigration law, import
law, export law and financial regulation depends on both the
willingness and wherewithal of the group to exact order by
force.
When an environmentalist demands that we save the
whales, he or she is in effect making the argument that saving
the whales is so important that it is worth doing harm to
humans who harm whales. The peaceful environmentalist is
petitioning the leviathan to authorize the use of violence in the
interest of protecting leviathans. If state leaders were to agree
and express that it was, indeed, important to save the whales,
but then decline to penalize those who bring harm to whales, or
decline to enforce those penalties under threat of violent police
or military action, the expressed sentiment would be a
meaningless gesture. Those who wanted to bring harm to
whales would feel free to do so, as it is said, with impunity
without punishment.
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Without action, words are just words. Without
violence, laws are just words. Violence isnt the only answer, but
it is the final answerto the question: Or else what?
The point being made here is that it is a violent
world we live in. It is hostile, cruel, structured without
our say-so, ordered with thousands and thousands of
complex laws designed to protect the weak from the
strong, the sheep from the wolves, the wolves from
themselves. Each time we ask the question or else
what? the answer is always the same: a gloved fist. A
cold cell. A hot bullet.
If we see these facts and agree that the world is
indeed a hostile place, filled with rape and slaughter and
home invasion and muggings and on and on ad infinitum,
ad nauseum- then we must look at ourselves and ask the
only question that matters: are we prepared for it? Can
we deal with it when it comes our way? How would we
hold up against an attack from one, two, even three
assailants? Just because some of you have not found
yourselves in a situation that warrants a violent response
or an aggressive defence yet does not mean that it will
never happen. Saying to yourself if the time came, I
think I could cope, is simply rampant foolishness and
hubris. One needs to know. If this system is about the
R.E.A.L. applications, then it is imperative that we are
confident on a basis of experience, not unfounded pride.
It is because of this that I believe physical violence should
be a part of every berserker and spearwifes personal
praxis, introduced in a meaningful and regular fashion to
dispel certain questions one might hold about themselves
and their nature, as well as their strengths and
weaknesses. In the words of Mr. Durden: How much can
you know about yourself if youve never been in a fight?
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Most peoples immediate reaction to the hostile
confrontation that occurs pre-fight (even if the fight itself
never occurs) is one of fear, nausea, panic, or, best case
scenario, overt excitability. By making the fight itself
something that is no longer feared or dreaded as an
unknown horror, but rather looked at with the
confidence that an individual feels with something he is
accustomed to, we remove the dread from the entire
situation, simply because we are facing a known instead
of an unknown.
I am not necessarily suggesting that all CM
practitioners undergo time in an MMA gym, although I
have found it to be an invaluable experience in my own
life, and it could be looked at in much the same way as
Arminius
2
spending years in the Roman Legions as a way
to improve his overall understanding of combat training
and warfare in order to ultimately defeat the Romans at
their own game.
I believe that even with the CM do-it-yourself
credo that is near to all of our hearts, some time spent
with a knowledgeable instructor is still a good idea for
those looking to get a really good grasp on the basics. For
those uninterested in such formal training, use whatever
resources you can to learn basic striking and grappling
forms and manoeuvres (stay well clear of self-defence
type systems and stick with tried and true MMA stuff,
Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu etc.) and begin practicing them in a
mirror until your form is good.
Now, for the violent bit.

2
Arminius was the Germanic leader, raised as a
naturalised hostage by the Romans who later returned to
lead the Germanic tribes against them.
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At this point, when you have achieved a basic
grasp, you should begin sparring with a partner. My
advice is to begin with boxing gloves or MMA gloves at
the very least, and wear a mouth guard and groin
protection. Start with drills from your resource manual
or whatever youre using, gradually working your way up
to real sparring, but not going at 100% just yet. Spend a
week working just the jab on one another, becoming
accustomed to the feel of being in close combat, utilizing
proper dodge and parrying technique in slow and
controlled motions, paying attention to your breathing
and so on. From here, speed and force can be increased
bit by bit as you gain a working knowledge of the task at
hand, working in rear hand punches, basic kicks and so
on.
Remember, you are not training to injure your
partner, but you are simulating the hostility and violence
of a real confrontation: once you are comfortable with
your partner and as well as yourself, take things up a
notch- make a grim game of it as you square off against
two berserkers at once, with the goal to withstand their
punches and kicks for a 2 or 3 minute round. Study
submission holds and drill them at slow speed to increase
your personal power in a real conflict.
The idea here is not to become a competition
level fighter, although if it is something you enjoy and
wish to pursue further, then by all means, do so; the idea
is to make sure you are above average in all areas,
including the realm of physical conflict. Can the terms
berserker and spearwife even be applied in any sort of
meaningful manner to an individual who has never had a
mouthful of their own blood, or felt the ringing in their
ears from a hard blow to the head?
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Remember, too, that a bit of training does not
make you invincible, but it should make you more
confident and a much more capable and deadly beast. I
can personally compare the dozens of street fights I was
in before any training to the ones after with a marked
sense of pride in my improvement, ferocity and
effectiveness- and it is in those areas of self-proving that
a Centurion Method berserker or spearwife shines:
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INTRODUCTION

When first the Centurion Method reared its
beautiful head into my life, I immediately knew what it
was, what it would be, what it would achieve and what it
could do to Man.
There is an accepted way of dealing with the
fitness program, how you approach the person seeking to
lose weight or gain muscle, a way which we have turned
on its head. Up to now very few people have approached
novice lifters and said shut the fuck up and do it; that in
itself was revolutionary for this craven world. It will
never become popular because its not what the majority
of the obese, sedentary, weakened and demoralised gym
users want to hear. We know however that it is what the
ubermenschen needs to hear to awaken from their 21st
century slumber and remember their heritage, their birth
right and their future inheritance. We know that it is in
the chanted names of dimly remembered heroes that the
heroes of tomorrow will be tempered.
No one has spoken in these terms before, no one
has pushed the boundaries this far. Were not really doing
anything that special in terms of what we do, its how we
do it that matters. What we say and how we proceed from
here is pivotal to our continued growth and strength,
something you are all a huge part of. Were not telling
you to exclusively workout in the woods or in nature, but
you are doing it. Were not telling you to use objects you
found or from your environment, but youre doing it.
Were not telling you to think of yourselves as post-
futurist warriors battling in an eco-system that is already
seeking your immediate destruction, but youre doing it.
The people who have gravitated towards the Centurion
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Method are huge personalities, great world changers,
were the people who one day hundreds of years ago
would have been slumped half pissed in oak thrones our
forefathers carved with their own hands, overseeing the
benevolent rule of a fifty generation empire. Were the
people who one day in hundreds of years will be
remembered in halls of stone and roughly gilded peeling
ruins that bear testament to the fact that even in such a
time as this, men and women still lived as they did
thousands of years before. Not without technology,
although we are primitivists; not without the rule of law,
although we are anarchists; not without conflict or
ignorance, although we are revolutionaries; we stand as a
beacon for a new time. I do not mince words, the
Centurion Method will be as a candle compared to the sun
in terms of what we have yet to achieve. Do not think of
yourselves merely as working out once a day, or reading
books when you shit, or wearing certain clothes to fit in
with your peers. Youre a daemon wearing robes of flesh,
and just as your ancestors were annihilated by the slavish
enemies of the flesh, we, the nobly fleshy will have the
vengeance.
In this expansion, primarily, were dealing with
things that were just too out there for the Training
Manual. Aspects of the training and perfecting process
that were too specific or revolutionary even for a
revolutionary training program. Weve kept them back
here as this is something we know not everyone will
aspire to or understand. And if it goes over your head,
dont worry, none of this is core to the Centurion Method
progress, thats why its here in this addition. You dont
need to use these patterns or systems, theyre the next
logical and extremist step on our path to greatness. But if
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you do feel an inclination towards having a go at them,
really, it will benefit you, we can assure you of that.
You can expect some quite bizarre implications
and some overtly magickal talk, were not trying to be
something were not. The founders of the Centurion
Method, and indeed the berserkers and spearwives who
are fleshing its ranks are schooled on a solid diet of
Nietzschen deicide, Crowlean self-worship and Superion
governed madness, you should know that, and explore it
yourself. We dont want people who look to the Centurion
Method as heroes or idols, you are your own god, be your
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CURIGH OF BARBURBIA

Weve never pretended to be intellectuals, weve
never masqueraded as scholars or philosophers, and
weve always dealt firmly with the matter or task in hand
as if it were a workout. Break the subject down, explore
it, examine the composite parts and then rebuild it, how
we want it to be, for the now, this moment. Ive always been
a fan of fantasy, the RPG, the influences of the 80s and
90s roleplay miniature world has been a big influence on
everything Ive built in my adult life. Things like Slaine,
Conan, Warhammer, Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and
Fire; Ive always dabbled with these things in some way,
and theyve always stood as a testament for me to the
ability of humans to create something where there was
nothing and to create myth where it was lacking. Who in
the modern era does not mix their love of the warriors of
Germania with the Riders of Rohan? Who does not see the
shadows of Odin and Loki playing in the grim apocalypse
of the Horus Heresy? Our myths do not die even when
they are dead! Testament is it not to the grim immortality
of the heroes in whom they are founded?
We have in all of these stories a foundation in the
ancient ancestor worship of the people who wrote them,
both primordial and very modern. Slaine is a shameless
reimagining of the myths of the Ulster Irish; Conan is a
shameless reimagining of the world in which the myths of
the Norse, Celts, Russians and Europeans were sculpted;
Warhammer is a composite of historical fact with
Tolkienesque fantasy; Lord of the Rings is a well-known
coagulation of Celtic and Saxon mythology specifically
geared towards the English psyche, the same could be
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said of a Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones. There is
nothing new under the Sun, only a retelling of the same story.
What then is this story? And specifically what is
the story the Centurion Method is telling?
Well, we can cover the same ground as we have
in other books, and keep this very simple, as I believe our
ancestors and therefore our spirits would like us to. The
Centurion Method is telling the myth of the hero, who
battles against the forces of chaos and destruction and
continues the rebuilding of the world. It is a story of the
victory of civilized (often overtly masculine) might over
savage naturalist chaos (dualistically the pastoralist and
the agriculturalist). The chaos is often synthesised and
come to terms with, and we can look to the myths of Thor
and Jormungand, Indra and the Serpent, St Michael and
the Dragon/Satan, Beowulf and Grendels Mother and so
on. What I mean by that is, this is not a telling of a
masculine light, penis, solar, civilized, mortal force
having victory over a feminine darkness, vulva, lunar,
barbaric immortality, it is a merging of the two. What is
missing in a lot of the bastardisations of these later myths
is the beauty of the way in which the hero commands or
subdues the chaotic enemy, he often slays it and finds
some kind of victory in rescuing a maiden or a prize of
some kind, and it is well known that in the earliest
versions of these myths that somehow, etymologically the
serpent and the prize itself are one and the same. We will
cover this more in the Soma section and I encourage you
to school yourself in the Vedic, Celtic, Greek, Nordic,
Persian and Babylonian myth cycles specifically for their
obsession with Soma/Haoma/Ambrosia. What I am trying
to get at here is that the Centurion Method is
fundamentally trying to make you aware of your chaotic
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and animal sides, which was done with an almost cruel
fascination in the Training Manual, and then through
fighting that chaos in the workouts and battling with
your inner demons, you defeat that chaos and claim the
prize, which is synthesis and union with your-self.
I speak in such lofty terms because I believe that
is what the hero is in these stories, a man who once lived,
who unlike his fellows, fought in a way that had not been
done before, mastered himself and much like the
ubermensch, he excelled and evolved beyond what had
been seen before. We may be regarded as mad by those
around us, but that man who first melted metal ore must
have been seen as insane by his comrades, until he was
wielding the first blade and struck down an enemy. We
stand in that same position
One thing we can look at briefly is the word hero
itself, which is Greek or Roman meaning man of
strength but comes from the earlier Indo-European root
ser which means to watch over or protect. The
Babylonian version of the word according to some nutty
Christians is Man Shepherd or Shepherd of Men,
literally the name Jesus allegedly claimed for himself
when he installed himself as the ultimate hero for the
Jewish people. In other words, the word hero can be seen
as being composite with the word messiah or saviour, i.e.
it is he we should look to as an archetype, someone to
emulate, someone to observe and replicate. When we say
someone is a hero in the classic sense we do not mean
he did something heroic, only that we want to copy his
example. For modern men and women therefore it is not
silly of them to call idiots like Justin Bieber or Beyonce
Knowles their heroes for they are literally emulating their
example, they are the Shepherd which these morons have
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chosen to follow and copy. They are sheep and they are
following the dross waster who does the least (of actual
historical importance) and gets the most.
The heroes of old embodied everything the solar
civilization sought to enthrone as great and good and
beautiful in its men and women, specifically its warriors.
Thor and Odin stand as heroes of great renown in this
sense, Thor as the slayer of the serpent, the bolt of pure
masculine force which slays the destructive chaos at the
foot of the Tree of Life, and Odin as the force of sheer
dread masculine will which manifests as a wolfish
wildness, an awful and almost reckless abandon which
strikes down foes as the blade does the grass. Then we
have classical heroes like Hercules, Romulus and even the
Hebrew Samson, huge hulking slabs of meat that dive into
battle headlong and commit nothing short of genocide on
the battlefield. The heroes of the Celts, the Cuchulains
and the Finns, these men committed deeds of great
spectacle and madness, often gripped with a kind of
divine bestiality that saw them become little more than
wild wolves in the grip of a bloodlust, slaying for little
more than the desire to slay. These are commendable
traits in the eyes of a primal people, a tribal community
that sought to survive at any cost. If your young men and
women were raised on stories of semi divine god kings
who went into battle half mad with a desire to slaughter
their foes, collect their skulls and smear themselves with
their blood, then you created a race of such beings.
History (as we have said before) is littered with tales of
these men, gripped by the desire to mimic their ancestor
or their mythical hero, touched by his example, charging
into battle like wild animals, with blade and bullet instead
of tooth and claw.
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We are not doing anything different. The
Centurion Method is reawakening that entire process.
Our training system, and therefore our workouts, and
therefore the very initiation rituals which a Berserker or
Spearwife takes when joining a Pit, are founded upon and
based in the myth cycles of these heroes. The workouts
are bloody named after them! Indras Spear! Kharns
Betrayal! Conan! Finn! Romulus!
What then are we looking at as the functions of
this hero? He exists as an archetype, an elemental and
historical force which lies buried within every man and
woman anywhere in the world. The DNA memories in
your blood were sculpted and shaped by the experiences
of your ancestors. The archetypes and myths of your
ancestral heroes still slumber in your genetic memory, it
takes but a glimpse of their experiences to remind you of
your heritage and send you simultaneously backward to
their thought form and forward toward your evolution.
This hero then is concerned not with the internet or his
friends list, or his car or his TV, or the quality of LCD
screen for his HD gaming system, for all of these are but
distractions designed to keep childish monkeys from
doing anything of worth and realising the futility of
modern living. No, this hero is concerned with what is
around him, what affects his existence, the elemental
forces which are part and parcel of his elemental force.
The stones and bedrock of the earth beneath his feet, the
rocks which he must move to make a home, the
mountains he must climb, the landscape which spreads
out under his feet, which holds the trees and into which
he will one day be buried, he is made from mud and to the
mud he shall return.
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The wood and forests which provide him with
shelter, fuel, shade from the sun and food to eat. The
living creatures of leaf, tendril, branch and bark which in
their variety shape the landscape around him and
provide forever that looming darkness which rests in
mirror form at the back of his mind.
The mountains and the landscape which he finds
himself in, the snow-capped peaks, the tundra slopes, the
grasslands and the rivers winding through it all. The
clouds that wrap themselves loose and playful around
those mountains in a grey mist, or come crashing down
with thunder and lightning to make war upon all he holds
dear.
He would look to the sea, that great abyss with
the unnameable and sightless abominations of the deep
rising up to threaten to snap the very cords of his
consciousness and bring on madness and death. And yet
the abundance and brimming life of the seashore with its
shoals of fish and crabs and seaweed.
His home, where the women of his tribe bring
forth life from their wombs, their hot wet holes which
smell of musk and the hot undergrowth of the forest,
which bleed in sync with the moon and cause him to rut
like the wild stag which he so admires. His own penis, the
great thrusting weapon of the sun, driving all aside as it
seeks its death in that mound. Such coarse life! Hot and
lustful!
And the grim wisdom that comes with death, the
knowledge of the carnal nature of man. The sight of stone
weapons, bronze, iron, cleaving limbs, caving skulls,
battered bodies in heaps, the severed heads collected and
piled. Would he not worship all of this as one great
temple of life? As he marched solemn and crippled,
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carrying the body of his fathers, mothers, brothers and
sisters, wives, sons and daughters to the mound, to be
burned or buried? Would he not hear the sounds of his
ancestors whispering to him on the wind as the rain
lashed his body and the sweat dripped from his brow?
You are making your life boring. These things still exist.
They still burn with hot life at the heart of everything
around you. The hero is still waiting to be stirred into
roaring flame inside you, no matter how deep the embers
have been buried beneath the flotsam and jetsam of
modern existence.
The stones are still beneath your feet. The tree is
still in the grove. The mountain is still dusted with snow.
The sea still rolls with grumbling monotony. A womans
loins still smell of hot musk, and a mans dick still throbs
and twitches at the stench. And men and women still die,
your loved ones die, as you will die too. And their corpses
are still carried to their resting place, solemn and grim,
whether to the abyss of the earth, the river or the pyre,
all things still die.
So why worship the hero? Why worship your
ancestors? Why invoke the stone, wood, sex and death
scenario? Because it has always been this way. We have
always done it and we always will. Through inventing and
creating, and retelling and singing and banging drum and
blowing horn, you invoke that same memory, that same
classical dirge that your most distant ancestor intoned.
The hymn to the woman whom he seeks to mount, the
hymn to the mountain top he seeks to climb, the hymn to
the mighty stag he wishes to bring down with arrow and
flint blade. Nothing has changed. Only you have changed.
Stumble onwards.

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THE MAGICK OF POLARITY

Youll know after reading the Training Manual
that the twin forces which evolution and human fitness
arc around are sex and violence. Sex and violence,
creation and destruction, female and male, receptive and
penetrative force etc. The duality of this force creates an
enormous amount of potential energy, which can be
utilized for your own growth, from physical expansion to
everything else in your life.
As we have said before Lucy and I are classically
Thelemite when it comes to sex and violence, war and
peace, attraction and aggression, we believe they are the
twin forces that polarize around the Hawk headed avatar
in whom we all have our flesh, our being, our monad etc.
However, we are also intensely simplistic beings, we dont
like to overcomplicate procedure or omen or ritual, we
like to keep it as archaic and close to the truth as
possible. Why ornament your workout with a thousand
bits of clothing and ergonomically designed
environmental controls when you can workout as your
ancestors did in the woods, trees, mountains, ravines?
The same goes for every other aspect of your life. For
want of a better term, Cromify your life. The Black Lord
of the Mound in the Conan stories is mightily simplistic,
Conan has little to say on the matter, barely calling upon
Crom at all, but still accepting him as the driving force
behind his existence. We are the same.
Make your gods of rock, wood and steel, keep it
that simple. Water, air, fire, cloud, peak, eagle, wolf, little
else is of importance. The same should be (and is) true of
sex.
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Sex has been reduced to little more than a
slaking of one partners lusts at the expense of the others
dignity, or vice versa. Pornography has sunken the sexual
act towards nothing more than a humiliation of the
female and the complete sexual gratification of the male,
which for our purposes is utterly useless. Empowering the
female by altering her shape, size, musculature and self-
image only to then advocate a sexual act that uses her
various orifices as nothing more than masturbatory aids
for degenerate untermenschen is utterly absurd. Women
were not always treated thus, and should not be. And to
encourage the male to see himself as a brutal creature of
wanton human/animal desires, only to then allow him
complete control of the sexual partner encourages
nothing more than weakness and acceptance of current
levels of ability. Sex is a conflict between equals and
should be seen as such.
What we really have in the pornographic
obsession in the modern world is not what many would
think. I personally believe pornography is a direct result
of the Judeo-Christian mind-set; the humiliation and
degradation of the superior feminine creature (the
woman is obviously usually very beautiful) at the hands
of the inferior masculine (the man is usually a moron stud
or a comedic decadent/nerd/inferior), the using of the
female body for the gratification of the male, it all reeks
of Adam being given a slave in the form of Eve, theres
nothing empowering about being torn up by slavering
male monkeys, and I would encourage all women
involved in such an industry to take another look at the
whole subject and reassess whether it is truly as counter-
culture as they would like to believe.
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Anyway, thats all beside the point. The majority
of you out there will probably watch porn and continue to
justify watching porn, its like the internet or TV or
anything else addictive in life, if you do it all the time,
you start to get ill and you look a bit weird.
We want to keep the act simple, brutal and
honest, cutting to the core of what it means to be human,
a mammal, an animal, a collection of conspiring organs
and cells working to provide a vehicle for the
consciousness that is you.
Discard the ritual of place and time, if youre
going to fuck someone and do it magically and for the
purpose of your and their growth, it needs to be
fantastical and mythical. I would recommend some basic
understanding of Crowleys sex magickal principles, but
again he tended towards being a misogynistic bastard
when it came to women, so keep it a bit more up to date,
some of the stuff in the Red Goddess by Peter Grey is gold
in that regard.
The following chapter on ritual will help explain
some of the deeper meaning behind what were going for
here, but essentially what you need to do is strip
everything back to core structures, pull away all the
human veils and veneer and expose (we keep saying it)
the animal within.
What you both need to do as a MAN and as a
WOMAN is remember who and what you are. Mentally (or
vocally if you wish) invoke within yourself the spirit of
that first man, the first man you would call sentient, his
urges, his wishes, his hopes and dreams, his lusts and
corruptions, his primitive cruelty, his primitive love, his
pure thought, unadulterated by conscience or moral
dogma. Act like him, breathe like him, sense the world
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through his eyes, his ears, his honed fears and razor
sharp muscular preparedness.
As a woman, imagine yourself clasping this first
man in your first hands, you do not embrace a creature of
delightful expectancy or potential, you embrace a raw
archetype of pure desire. The masculine testosterone
fuelled urge to procreate is slaked only by the
penetration of your innards with his weapon. Sex is a war,
sex is a dance between two opposing forces, see it as such.
The walls you put up will halt his advances, your ferocity,
your teeth, your dagger nails can end his life if you so
wish, you are not some heifer to be mounted and
discarded, you are a woman, the same woman that
spawned him, the same woman that gave his ancestors
life, the same woman that suckled him and raised him, he
is nothing without you. Own that honour, that primitive
urge to make this man yield to your will, you are the
Valkyrie to his Einherjar, without you he is just another
body on the battlefield, left to have its eyes plucked by
the ravens and to rot unknown among the enemy dead.
But you! You can carry him aloft to the Halls of Valhalla,
this is your battlefield, and dont let anyone ever tell you
otherwise. We may kneel before a male god of war and
conquest and wisdom and prophecy, but he had to dress
as a woman to gain the power of Seidr.
The core ritual of the Tantric mystery is that of
roleplay and taking on of ancestral archetypes. The
Indian/yogic incarnation of the cult requires the man to
think of himself (via invocation) as the living avatar of
the god Shiva (very similar to Odin and various Irish
gods) and the woman to think of herself as Shakti. In
their divine union between earthy, fleshy femininity and
lofty, astral masculinity the two re-create the divine
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union which caused the double helix spiral of creation. It
is not exaggerating the Tantric ritual to say that it is a re-
creation of that first union and a re-creation of the initial
urge which sparked all of manifest existence into life.
Your ritual is your own, and it is not for us to pry into the
mechanics of your bedroom space (or wherever else you
feel like shagging), but for the sake of your evolution as a
Berserker (he who has already died and is just waiting to
give his life for a purpose in battle) or a Spearwife (she
who has wed herself not to a man but to her weapon of
steel and death, in whom she finds rest), you need to have
an intimate understanding of the true roles of men and
women, and that is founded one and all in the sexual
conflict.
Have sex, but reduce and restart the archetype,
forget who you are, and rest in the blissful confidence of
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ASCENDANCE TO GODHEAD THROUGH PERSONAL
MYTH

By Paul Waggener

The dictionary defines "myth" as:
A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with
supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a
fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining
aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology,
customs, or ideals of society.
and:
A popular belief or story that has become associated
with a person, institution, or occurrence, especially one
considered to illustrate a cultural ideal.
Most of the time when we are discussing
mythology, we are talking about the gods and heroes of a
specific culture, oftentimes without taking a step back to
truly consider our own approach to the idea: what makes
a god?
What is it that builds up or determines this
essence that separates the mere human from the deity in
all his glory? On the one hand we can take the approach
(to disregard some arguments and to borrow from others)
that a god is a many faceted archetype, a representative
of specific qualities, often both positive and negative,
given form and personality in order that the people who
have created him or her can relate with these qualities in
a more human way. To use the above definition, "a
fundamental type in the worldview of a people." A simple
approach- and not a very inspiring one, although we will
carry its basic understanding of heroes and gods as
archetypal personas through to the next step with us.
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Let us look instead to the bolder idea that the eloquent
have called "euhemerism," which the dictionary defines
as:
"A theory attributing the origin of the gods to the
deification of historical heroes."
Here, then, is something we can sink our teeth
into! Although many sparrow-hearted treatises on
mythology and religion have called euhemerism a
"deterioration" of the spiritual praxis of a people, the
bold mind can delve deeper and see an exciting and
ferocious philosophy behind this definition. What wild
inspiration and drive toward immortality could spring
forth from the possibility that we, as mere humans, can
become deified? The next rational step of this thought
process is then: how?
To answer this question, we return to our
definition of our gods and our relationship toward them.
The monotheistic approach to their god has always been
one of "fear and trembling," experiencing their divine
ruler as an alien and unknowable intelligence, a prime
mover behind the universe who, at best, treats humanity
as foolish or wayward creations and at worst, as a
destructive child on an anthill.
This sort of rigid monotheism leaves little room
for defining one's own approach, and unsurprisingly,
creates few heroes of the sort that we see growing from
the root of the pagan cultures of ancient Rome, Germania,
Scandinavia and elsewhere. This is because true paganism
practices its worship (a word which was not recorded as
being used in the sense of paying homage to a
supernatural being until 1300CE, but meant rather, "to
give worth or renown to something.") through
emulation- an important distinction between seeking a
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relationship with something outside of oneself and
attempting instead to worship that persona through
one's own imitative actions, thereby becoming a
continuing part of the legacy of the divinity which is
given worth to.
By taking this approach to godhood and
mythology, our next move on this journey to ascendancy
is clear: we must choose which archetypes we would
embody, then move toward them with every moment of
life- every ragged breath, each trembling step that we
take, must be in service of these ideals that we have
chosen to quite literally become. The only way this can be
truly achieved is to shift one's reality and way of life from
the banal to the mythic. When we allow ourselves to
operate with an everyday, ordinary perception and
approach to this existence, the outcome will be very
predictable: we will be everyday, ordinary people,
forgotten by time and history, our names little more than
ash in the wind. We will be lazy and complacent, painting
the world around us with the grey brush of banality,
irony and apathy, seeing our surroundings through the
hazy lens of what Nietzsche would call "the all-too-
human." But we, on our road to godhood, must shatter
this lens with the hammer of mythos and will, looking
instead at every situation or circumstance we find
ourselves in through the glorious eye of a god- seeing
each seemingly random happening as a potential heroic
epic or saga of personal overcoming and self-
transformation. The ordinary or unimportant details
become the devices instead driving your personal
narrative, each one a potential spring-board to
adventure, glory and triumph; transform your surroundings
in the mythic simply by the way in which you choose to
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perceive them. If you do not submit to normalcy and
simplicity, but aspire to great heights in every action, the
tapestry of your own mythos will begin to weave itself
with diverse colors, forming a weave of heroism, of ideal,
of emulatable action that will outlive your years here on
this spinning orb and place you forever into the pantheon
of those giants who have gone before you. From the
Havamal, that great work of Norse poetry:
"Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself also must die.
But one thing that never dies is the fame of a dead man's
deeds."
By becoming an archetype, you become a god. It
is only we who choose whether we remain mere men or
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PRACTICE FOR THE PIT

One of the things that was only briefly touched
upon in the Training Manual was the use of weapons,
which may have surprised some of you. The basic reason
for this is that as the Training Pits open we will begin to
use the duelling pits for MMA inspired physical combat
training.
The emphasis wont be on making you a good
fighter, it wont even be on seeing if you can win any
fights. It is solely on seeing how you react to getting a shit
kicking. There will be armour provided, swords, wooden
weapons, groin guards and helmets and the general
premise is on classic Jiu Jitsu rules, tap, snap or nap,
which means the fight is only over when someone calls it
(tap), they break a limb/bone (snap) or pass out (nap).
What were doing here is preparing you for
taking a punch in a fight, which will only happen if you
(drum roll)..take a punch in a fight. All the better if that
punch is from a gauntleted fist with spikes digging into
your cheek and slashing your eyebrows open. It is
entirely down to the Pit Master to decide when fights end
and his discretion will see how you fare, alive or dead.
Dont be a wimp when it comes to this, Lucy cracks me
over the skull with a wooden pole on a regular basis, shes
broken my nose and blackened my eyes all in the name of
toughening up. So dont be a whinge.
What were looking for in this small section is to
prepare you for what may come in the duelling pit. There
will be a general rule of berserkers vs. berserkers and
spearwives vs. spearwives but if the woman wants to fight
a man, shes more than welcome, well just make sure the
scales are adequately balanced.
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The only way to get you ready for this is to
practice being battered.
It is a theory that some Norse/Germanic
berserkers would hang themselves and blacken their eyes
and whiten their faces before battle, ritualistically killing
themselves so that their enemies believed they were
facing an army of the dead. Include in this the theory of
their consumption of Soma (Amanita Muscaria), the
famous fairy mushroom, which is cognate with the
Cauldron of Resurrection in the Irish myth cycle and we
have a very real idea of soldiers ritualistically harming
themselves to prepare for the horrors of war. As a side
note Id mention that the Cauldron of Resurrection brings
the warriors who died back to life as walking corpses,
strikingly similar to what the mushroom would be said to
do to the Norse warrior.
Anyway, what were looking for is for you to face
your fears. A man is not truly a man until hes been
punched in the face, truly a warrior is not born until he
has lain in a puddle of his own blood. To paraphrase
Nietzsche
What doesnt kill you, only makes you stronger.
That is not a general theme of life for us, that is a
physical and spiritual dictum; you lift weights that would
snap the limbs of lesser men, you climb to the top of trees
and almost fall, you run up mountains in nought but a
pair of boxer shorts, you swim rivers in the dead long
night of winter, and here, you get beaten repeatedly over
the head with a stick until you pass out, and you wake up
a stronger man, sore, broken, bruised, but stronger.
If you do die, well, you were gifted with a good
death.
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After fighting, everything else in your life got the volume
turned down. You can deal with anything. Tyler Durden
What you need to do is get into a space with a
comrade you feel comfortable with, (someone you know
isnt going to flip out and strangle you when the going
gets tough) and start slugging at each other. You can start
out small, just start slapping each other, get harder and
harder, until you can start punching each other. Dont go
nuts, just draw a little blood.
As you get more comfortable with it just start
fighting, keep to the Pit fighting rules of tap, nap or
snap and youll be fine.
Open the space up, as we said, ritualise it, hallow
it for the product of making you hard and cruel where
there was previously softness and weakness. Dont go into
this with 21st century head on, get down and get dirty,
paint your face, blacken your eyes, get blood on your
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INTONING THE NAMES OF OUR HEROES

The Centurion Method has existed since the first
man went to move something bigger than himself, or
heavier than he had lifted before, or ran further than he
had before and with gritted teeth and bulging eyes,
muttered under his breath the name of a god or hero
sacred to his beliefs. In that moment he would have found
strength more than he believed he had, or pools of
untapped endurance, all stored away behind an
imaginary wall with the name of his god-hero inscribed
on the door. The name of a god has much to say to the
DNA memory of your physical frame, do not
underestimate it.
This brief section will cover the intended use of
the names of the patrons of the workout sections, you
should become acutely and intimately experienced in the
myths and legends of these heroes and use that read
knowledge to garner experiential wisdom. Through
regular use of their intonation you will encourage deeper
neurological links between the name and a specific
feeling of endurance, power or strength which will
further encourage that mood in yourself, for whatever
purpose. This is quite simply, magick. Each name will
form a reservoir in your unconscious psyche which will
grow and grow with every use.

Conan and Strength

Conan the Barbarian; what images does he
conjure? Each one of us will have a different immediate
reaction and a pooled collection of images, words, sayings
and events. For many it will be Arnold the Austrian
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pummelling faces with spiked gauntlets or flexing his
enormous muscles. For others it will be a Frank Frazetta
inspired image of a black haired, swarthy beast of a man,
ferocious and primal.
Whatever your original image, we will stick to
the Robert E Howard vision of Conan. Pantherish muscle,
grace and speed, wielding some hideously enormous
weapon, lifting boulders twice his size, carrying a scantily
clad woman over one shoulder and a fallen comrade over
the other, splitting a huge serpent in two by tearing its
jaws open, breaking the neck of an albino ape; Conan is
pure unadulterated strength personified. The Conan
workouts in the Centurion Method have been designed
with this eventual goal in mind, pure strength, physical
indomitability, skull crushing, broadness, thickness, size,
and yet still with that speed and power which had Conan
leaping from the tops of towers and walls sparking a fire
of fear among his foes.
When invoking Conan keep it very simple, when
you reach the end of a workout and you feel your
strength ebbing away, just close your eyes and mumble
his name, louder and louder, Conan.Conan.Conan
and then grit your teeth, open your eyes and assault,
conquer, overthrow!
Reddened blades and broken shields, shattered limbs and
headless foes.

Finn and Power

Finn is quite similar to Conan as they share a
Celtic heritage (Conan is supposed to be a barbarian Celt,
hence Crom and Mannanan Mac Lir in his pantheon);
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however Finn represents the pure reality of the
Celtic/Irish warrior.
He may be of mythical origins but the Fenians,
the Tuatha and the warriors of the Red Branch were
obviously supposed to be inspiration and guidance for the
very real warriors of our ancestry. Finn represents the
pure explosive power and ability of the human, able to
jump higher and further, run longer, crawl lower and
above all with strength and power in almost infinite
reserves. We have spoken much of the entry
requirements of the Fenians and what Finn would have
been capable of and we have openly modelled the
initiations of the Centurion Method berserkers and
spearwives on Finn and his warrior band. Finn is that
black soot smeared naked beast in the woods that has
hidden in a bog for six weeks with nought but a knife
between his teeth and the blood of his enemies on his
hands. He drops down silent from the tree, stalks his foe
for silent aeons of pure dread and then annihilates all
who stand before him with pure graceful agility and
explosive power.
When you intone the name of Finn, make it loud
and aggressive, not the quiet growing growl of Conan but
the growl which becomes a howl in mere seconds, FINN!
FINN! FINN! pounding out those last reps whilst you call
on that father of our brotherhood.
Bulging eyes of lunar power, hiding here uncounted hours.

Romulus and Endurance

If Conan and Finn exist in varying grades of
reality from pure myth to that of mythical legend, we can
count Romulus as one of those characters in historical
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mythology who blurs the boundaries of reality. The
Romans believed wholeheartedly that they were
descended from the twin brothers Romulus and Remus,
two orphans who were suckled by a giant she-wolf. By
association the Romans believed they were descended
from a pair of men who were essentially half wolf. The
Roman Legions based most of their physical feats on this
fact, what warrior would not be steeled and encouraged
by the fact that his ancestors were possibly raised by a
giant female wolf, and therefore by inference, that their
brothers and sisters were wolves. Would Romulus and
Remus therefore not have had to run with the pack, fight
for their food with other wolves, bring down their prey
just like a wolf?
In effect the Roman Legions must have
developed much of their steely character and endurance
from their wolfish ancestry, their ferocity in battle, their
cold determination to face everything thrown at them,
their organisation when bringing down an enemy. The
Romans may have been many ill spoken things, but weak
and easily conquered they were not. They based the
majority of their soldiering ability on endurance, which is
why Romulus is the quiet and unspoken founder of the
Centurion Method, it is after all, he who inspired the
Centurions.
What do we look for in our imagining of Romulus
then? Naked, hairy, matted beard, covered in earth and
skulking in the caves with his brother and his mother,
surrounded by the hungry wolves he called brothers. He
would have been able to cover distance like a wolf, howl
like a wolf, fight like a wolf, breed like a wolf, Romulus is
raw animalistic rage personified, the man made perfectly
natural.
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When invoking Romulus make it steely and dark,
you are not invoking a human element in yourself, you
are not calling on power and strength, you are calling on
the incorruptible urge of the human beast to survive.
Romulussssssss.Rrrrrommullusssssss.Rrrrrrrrrr..ggggrrrr
rrr Those reps are for your hardening, your
strengthening, your becoming more like the wolf.
She wolf, She wolf, She wolf, wolf to our motherless kin.

























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THE THEORY OF THE DREAM WORKOUT

By Lucy Fraser

The basis of the workouts in this booklet come
from a dream I had in which I and a group of people were
doing precision military drills. There was a leader
shouting the commands, there was pack-like competition
and there was genuine fear of the voice roaring as though
there was really something to fear which is ultimately
why these kinds of workouts are important. To be able to
exert a lot of energy under pressure this means jelly
legs, quick reactions, and also a mental workout. You may
be very good at getting into role and focusing your intent
so the workout feels real, but when it comes to a workout
that requires your genuine belief, you need external
influences which you genuinely fear.
I think the meaning behind this dream, pointed
towards how I personally see my workouts - training for
some unknown future event, or even daily occurrences,
the core of the Centurion Method mythos. I dreamt it
because it is an innate concern, and when you start to re-
wild, these concerns re-surface. Sometimes during a
workout, we can switch off mentally, and just go through
the motions, but this isnt mentally preparing you for
what you are preparing your body for, which seems
contradictory. The workouts in this book will keep you
switched on, which will hardwire and connect your mind
and body to be prepared whenever there is threat of
these hypothetical situations (which are becoming ever
more likely as we march towards self-destruction).
There is another element to these workouts,
which I think is important in a survival situation, and
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that is the pack mentality. There are some specifically
group workouts, encouraging healthy competition and
community. You need to be able to work alongside others
in a survival situation, you also need to work out who is
the weakest and strongest and push them to better
themselves. This is the essence of community and
fellowship, healthy competition that encourages only the
strongest and most cooperative elements to survive and
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GUERILLA WORKOUTS

These workouts are specifically designed, as Lucy
said, to encourage a realistic and thought/fear provoking
response in the berserker/spearwife. These workouts can
be incorporated directly into your current routine.

Conans Kozaks

The Cruel Wizard Rathamon

Style: One timed run through

Using a 10kg sledgehammer

1. 100 x sledgehammer skull crushers (50 each side)
2. 100 x sledgehammer floor smash
3. 100 x sledgehammer tyres
4. 3 x 10 pull ups
5. 3 x 20 press ups
6. 3 x 100 yard bear crawls
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Galens Strength Routine

Style: One timed run through

One of three workouts (one in each section), based on the
routine as espoused by the Greek athletics instructor
Galen (look him up). Weve adapted his regime to fit our
methods and techniques.

Using a 10kg sledgehammer and a large rock.

1. 100 x sledgehammer swings (50 each side)
2. 3 x 25 rock pick ups
3. 3 x 20 rock pick up and walk 100m (every 10 reps)
4. 5 x 100 yard sprints
5. 10 x 100yard burpee pull up bear crawls
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The Pillar That Holds the World

Style: One timed run through

Using a log you regard as very heavy (verging on your
3rep max), a 10kg sledgehammer, a tyre if you have one
and a large heavy rock.

Superset no.1 (three exercises back to back) x 3
30 x press ups
50 sledgehammer tyres (25 each side)
15 press ups
Superset no.2 x 3
4 x 50 yard walks carrying huge log
10 x front squats
15 x rock front raise
Superset no.3 x 3
6 x 50 yard log drags
20 x rock bicep curl
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You Are Not Ready

Style: One timed run through

This is part one of three workouts, each one dealing with
the way you perceive your abilities and the way you lift,
carry, move or advance. This is something core to your
training, you must overcome your boundaries. The
workout titles read You are not ready. You will fail. But you
will always come back fighting. Think about that.

Using a heavy rock and a heavy log.

Superset no.1 (three exercises back to back) x 3
20 x rock curl
20 x rock tricep skull crusher
30 x rock bent over row
Superset no.2 x 3
20 x wide grip pull up
20 x lying log press
30 x log bent over row
Superset no.3 x 3
20 x rock flyes
50 x lying leg raise
20 x rock bent over row
Afterwards only once -
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You Will Fail

Style: Three round circuit

Each of these exercises must be done to failure. You can
cheat yourself, or you can do the work, but each and
every set must feel like you cannot ever do that
movement again.

1. Press ups
2. Pull ups
3. Scissor crunches
4. Divebomb press ups
5. Wide grip pull ups
6. Plank

Obviously by the third round your reps will be drastically
less than the first round, but still, with each round, try
and beat your previous score.














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You Will Always Come Back Fighting

Style: One timed run through

Split into two sections

Core

1. 20 x 50 yard bear crawl
2. 30 x press ups
3. 40 x scissor crunches
4. 3 minute plank
5. 20 x scissor crunches
6. 10 x press ups
7. 5 x 50 yard bear crawl

Strength (using heavy rock)

1. 20 x bicep curls
2. 20 x military press
3. 20 x bicep curls to military press
4. 20 x press ups
5. 10 x bicep curls to military press,
6. 10 x military press
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Finns Wolves

Grenade

Style: Group training session in forest clearing or field.

1. WARM UP Group run in circle for 3minutes with
group leader shouting various alterations high knees,
touch toes, jump, touch floor etc

2. Sprint away group leader shouts signal and everyone
sprints away from circle and to outskirts of field/clearing.

3. Tag clock to press ups Leader selects person who was
slowest at running to field edge, they are chased whilst
the rest of the group does press ups, until that person is
caught.

4. Piggy backs to dead man drag group pair up and
piggy back (one on the others back) then sprint back to
centre of the circle. The slowest pair has to drag the rest
of the group back to their starting point.

5. Grenade sprints Once everyone is back in the centre,
leader gives signal and everyone sprints for the edge of
the field, at a random moment he shouts GRENADE and
everyone has to throw themselves to the floor. Slowest
person has to do 30 burpees, everyone else does 10.

6. Fireman carries Spread out into wide circle, quite a
large gap between each person, leader starts by fireman
carrying (over the shoulder) person to his right, carries
them to next person and then that person carries the
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next in line. All the way round until leader is carried back
to start. Whilst the person doing fireman carry is working
everyone else does burpees.

7. Bear crawl race when last person has done fireman
carry everyone drops down to bear crawl position and at
leaders signal races for designated spot at edge of field.

8. Tag simple, once everyone gets to the designated
spot, the last person to arrive is on it and you play a
game of tag/chase.






















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Galens Violent Routine

Style: One timed run through

This is the next in the series of Galens workout patterns,
this one was called Violent and fits Finn perfectly,
explosive, aggressive and dynamic. Make sure you work
hard and fast on this one.

Using 10kg sledgehammer and a heavy rock.

1. 100 x rapid sledgehammer swings (50 each side)
2. 50 x rock throws (25 each side, with one arm dominant)
3. Jump squats to FAILURE
4. 50 x rock throws (25 each side)
5. 3 x 25 rock swings
6. 3 x 10 pull ups
7. 50 x press ups















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Sports Day

Style: Pair/group training session in forest clearing or
field

This workout is designed to mimic the classic British
Sports Day of the 1990s. These were a staple for me and
Lucy and they carved out that aggressive competitive
spirit we see so little of today. So weve made a horrible
one up. Would benefit from a group of 4 or more but
could be done with 2 people. The loser or losers of each
segment must do 50 burpees, there and then.

1. Tug of war
Classic rope pull, one on either end of the rope, victory is
by pulling the opponent off their feet, you are NOT
allowed to coil rope up your arm or do hand to hand
change over.

2. Three legged race
Partners are tied together by one leg and then run a set
distance without falling over.

3. Skipping race
Race a set distance with a skipping rope, burpee penalties
added for cheating or running instead of skipping.

4. Cone dodge/obstacle race
Set up a series of cones/rocks to designate a small looping
course, participants have to navigate and dodge/avoid
obstacles.

5. Piggy back race
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Racer climbs onto partners back and they run to finish.
6. Person drag
One partner drags the others dead weight a set distance
to finish, then turn around and repeat opposite direction.

7. Bear crawl push rock race
Bear crawl a certain distance whilst pushing a medium
sized rock or log.

























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Logen Ninefingers

Style: One timed run through

Find a wooded area, clearing, field or your back garden
and mentally arrange a circuit of about 500 yards of space
through which you will move.

1. Bear crawl the entire circuit of your arranged space
2. 20 x press ups
3. Repeat the bear crawl circuit
4. 30 x press ups
5. Repeat the bear crawl circuit
6. 40 x press ups
7. Repeat the bear crawl circuit
8. 50 x press ups
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That the Strong Take From the Weak

Style: Partner/group workout in woodland or field
1. Partner burpee stalk x 4 One partner stands in the
centre of an agreed space, facing in one direction, this
person is the prey. Other partner walks roughly 200 yards
away, this person is the predator. The predator creeps up
on the prey from behind, with both partners counting
continuously up from zero. The predator has to get to the
prey without being heard. When the predator gets hands
on the prey the prey has to do burpees of however many
seconds it took for the predator to catch them. If the
predator is heard and their presence declared then they
have to do burpees of the seconds.
2. Sprint chase x 4 same as above, but when the prey
feels threatened or feels like the predator is nearby, they
bolt and sprint as hard as they can away. If they are
caught they do 50 x burpees. If they manage to escape to
pre-agreed position then the predator does burpees. Do
this twice for each partner.
3. Grappling burpees x 4 partners stand opposite each
other and get down into wide stance wrestling position
with left hand on partners right shoulder, other arm
hanging down. Grabbing each others back leg the aim is
to flip or pin your opponent. If/when one partner is
victorious the other has to do 50 x burpees. Do this twice
for each partner.
4. 100 x Burpee clock to bear crawl whilst one partner is
doing 100 burpees the other one bear crawls, only when
the burpees are complete can the partner stop bear
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Romulus Legions

Galens Rapid Workout

Style: One timed run through

This is the third of Galens workouts, this one
emphasising the speed and ferocity of his system. A lot of
the exercises are dynamic and will feel strange, for some
you may benefit using a partner, improvise otherwise.

1. 1.5 mile run
2. 3 x 30 second sprints (hard as you can)
3. 100 bicycle punches
4. Five minutes of shadow boxing (use a bag if you want,
otherwise just repeated boxing as if fighting an
opponent)
5. 3 x 20 second sprints with bicycle punch
6. 3 x 1minute tip toe air punching
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Pit of Snakes

Style: One timed run through

This workout requires a woodland area or a garden with
enough room to immerse several pillars of wood, or at
least mark out specific spots. You can use rocks or logs as
markers and improvise.
Set up this area of about 20 metres square, with pillars or
markers randomly dotted around (if you have your own
Pit this can be left permanently set up) and begin on one
of the set points. Then do the following

1. 50 x frog leaps from marker to marker
2. 50 x one legged hops from marker to marker
3. 25 x kneeling forward rolls from marker to marker
4. 50 x bear crawl from marker to marker, clambering
onto each one and pausing their on all fours/squat
position.
5. 5 x 30 second sprints from marker to marker, covering
as many as possible in 30secs and then attempting to beat
previous.
6. 50 x one legged squats on a marker
7. 100 x squats on a marker
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Master

Style: Partner or group workout

This workout is designed to be done in pairs or within a
group, it can be done with an odd number as a trio or
larger group, but it would be distinctly harder.
Assuming youre in pairs

1. 3 minutes x shadow boxing dodges

2. 100 x leg sweep dodges
The boxer swings his attacking leg in a low arc to try and
sweep the dodgers legs out from under him, the dodger
jumps out of the way. Swap and repeat.

3. 100 x kneeling floor punch
Both participants kneel down and aim solid, full piston
strike punches with withdrawn and extended arm at the
floor, racing each other to finish.

4. 100 x jumping squat race
Partners stand opposite each other and race to finish 100
perfect jumping squats (would probably benefit from a
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PRIMAL WORKOUTS

Same procedure here as with the Primal
workouts in the Training Manual, do each one in turn,
making sure you really draw it out, dont rush through
the process, feel it and take into account everything
weve covered in this book.
A lot of these workouts are based on the
principles explored in the articles contained in this book.
Whereas the previous workouts are classic Centurion
Method brutality, a lot of these are taking you into new
territory of the mind and body paradigm complexity. We
want you to explore the entirety of this process during the
workout, not before or after, not in theory, not even in
practice, but in experience. We are taking new ground
here; this hasnt been done before without a tutor, you
might hurt yourself. Accept that and keep moving
forward.















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The Nose and Ears of Gods

Style: Archaic Movement

The emphasis with Archaic Movement workouts is to take
everything as slowly as possible and to exaggerate the
stretch and primitive application of the movements.
Imagine yourself back on the tropical slopes of the
primordial Altai mountains.

1. 10 x 100m bear crawl stalk
Go into bear crawl and move as slowly as possible,
imagine youre stalking prey or being hunted, keep as low
to the ground as you can.
2. 10 x 100m lunging walk stalk
Go into a lunge and get as low as possible, keeping your
head down and stalker mind-set on. Keep your hips
level, dont let your head bob and lunge forward, walking
with eyes locked on a specific point.
3. 5 x 100m sprints
4. 10 x 100m belly crawl
Get down onto your belly, lift yourself up on your elbows
and drag yourself along the ground, keeping your head
down, bum down, walking on your elbows and knees.
Classic military crawl.
5. 3 x 100m sprints







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Strength of the Panther

Style: Archaic Movement

For this workout you will need a wooded area, a specific
tree, a wall or gate and a small space to workout in.

1. 5 x tree climbs
Climb to the top of the tree, climb back down again, thats
one rep.
2. 10 x branch get ups
Jump up, grab a branch, pull your legs up and wrap them
around the branch, then pull yourself up into the tree.
Swing your legs back down, lower yourself and drop
down.
3. 3 x 100 metre sprint through woods
Run through the woods as fast as you can jumping over
obstacles, logs, imagined or otherwise.
4. 10 x wall/gate jumps
Jump over the wall or gate as fluidly as possible, rolling as
you land if you feel you can.
5. 50 x log bunny hops
Stand astride a log or obstacle and hop from one side to
the other, fifty times.
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Eyes of the Wolf

Style: Archaic Movement

1. Long distance bear crawl. Half a mile or more.
Very simple, go to a woodland area or a field, go into bear
crawl and move in this position for as long as you can. If
you have a mile of woodland, cover it, if you only have a
small space, measure it out and work out how many times
you have to cover it.























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Limbs of Beaten Bronze

Style: Martial Arts Practice

This is something which will be very familiar to some
people but totally alien to others, it will hurt, it will bruise
you if youre doing it right, just suck it up and get it done.
You will need a log or rock. This kind of Iron training is
designed to harden and toughen the muscles and
ligaments involved with striking.

1. 100 x alternating open palm strikes
Keep your hand open in a classic karate chop and with
palm forward strike as hard as you can with the lower
part of your hand onto the log/rock surface.
2. 100 x alternating side palm strikes
Same hand position, strike with side of the hand, knife
chop motion onto the log/rock.
3. 50 x alternating forearm strikes
With bent elbow, strike forward across the body, hitting
the flat of the forearm onto the surface.
4. 50 x alternating side leg strikes
Standing opposite hard surface, kick leg sideways striking
with the side of the lower leg, (NOT the shin itself).
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Neolithic Claws

Style: Archaic Movement

This workout is designed to increase your grip strength,
so dont wimp out, hold onto each move for as long as you
possibly can. You will need a branch or pull up bar, and a
log or barbell you find VERY heavy.

1. 10 x max length weight holds
Pick up the log or barbell and hold it for as long as you
can.
2. 10 x max length branch holds
Jump up to branch or bar and hold yourself for as long as
you can.
3. 10 x max length weight holds
As above.
4. 50 x 10 yard farmer carries with heavy rocks
With a rock in each hand held down by your sides, walk
for 10 yards without letting go of the rock, repeat fifty
times.












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Vishnu

Style: Running

In the same tradition as the Training Manual, well end on
a Primal routine designed to get you moving your entire
body as a unit.

So get out there, climb a mountain, run through a forest,
do at least 5 miles. Jump over things, work everything,
enjoy your body. Make it dynamic and encourage yourself
to include a huge range of movements, try to include
everything youve learned and experienced with the
Centurion Method, just explore your body and the world
around you.


















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STIRRING THE EMBERS

What can we expect as we go forth from this
point? What wed like to see is the Berserkers and
Spearwives of the Centurion Method creating their own
force, their own energy, their own myths and their own
perfect processes to advance as conquerors of their own
archetype.
What weve covered here is but the tip of the
iceberg in terms of what we hope to achieve with the
Centurion Method, we dont want just a group of people
who use the system to get fit or stay fit, thats great, but
its bloody boring and you might as well just go to the
gym. What we want is an underground tribe of
likeminded individuals who want to surpass anything
that has been done before. Hell, if we get that good, we
want to see people building stone circles the old way,
erecting pillars of impossible construct in the sacred
groves we bless with our own sweat and blood. We want
the old gods invoked in brand new temples, on altars
made of the rusted innards of cars and trucks, the
warband sitting on tyres and old bicycles, everything
hand made from what was abandoned by the generation
who became but a glumly referenced memory.
If the world is to turn into a parody of Yevgeny
Zamyatins We, then it is us who will be the ferocious half
mad barbarians living just outside the wall in the endless
jungles of the forgotten earth. If the world is to become a
glimmering spectacle of Brave New World dramatics then
we will be the Savages who live outside of the system,
observed and abhorred, maligned and derided, but still
alive. If our cities descend into crime ridden Gothams
then we are the League of Shadows.
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That is the key thing we want you to take from
this book, and remember when you are doing the
workouts, you are not a human being with a National
Insurance number, who has a job, a house, a car and a
phone. You are an animal, the same as the others on this
planet, you have teeth and claws, you designed the sword,
the chariot, the wheel, the bridle that tamed the horse,
the whip that tamed the dog, you are gottermensch.
Well finish with a quote -
Picture yourself planting radishes and seed potatoes
on the fifteenth green of a forgotten golf course. You'll hunt elk
through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of
Rockefeller Centre, and dig clams next to the skeleton of the
Space Needle leaning at a forty-five degree angle. We'll paint
the skyscrapers with huge totem faces and goblin tikis, and
every evening what's left of mankind will retreat to empty zoos
and lock itself in cages as protection against the bears and big
cats and wolves that pace and watch us from outside the cage
bars at night.










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HAMMER KVLT
EXPANSION PACK

























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INTRODUCTION

In your experiences of the Centurion Method
thus far, you have probably got hold of a sledgehammer,
and you have probably used it in the ways described in
the Training Manual. What were doing here is something
quite different, we want to take the sledgehammer to its
logical conclusion, exaggerate everything and strip the
fundamental use of a hammer back to where it came
from.
So, as a brief introduction, lets look at what your
sledgehammer is. A long pole, probably about the length
of your arm, if not a little longer, with a large metal
oblong at one end. Some of the more elaborate hammers
used for smashing rocks might have a pick axe on one
end, but the standard builders hammers you can usually
get hold of are classic stone breakers. They are used to
knock down walls, smash out bricks, knock posts into the
ground for fences and so on. The sledgehammer itself
though must be sourced in an older heritage of the war
hammer, which is how were going to be using it in this
book. To look at this we have to understand how the war
hammer was used, what it was for and what historical
examples we have to look at.
The Nordic races, Germans, Celts and other Indo-
European tribes (and to some extent the Indic and Near
Eastern peoples) all have examples of hammers used in
war, probably an evolution from the axe, and the Asians,
particularly Chinese, also have examples of hammers of
various sizes used in battle. The hammer was used from
the earliest periods of mankinds war making evolution,
particularly in the medieval and later period up to the
creation of the first mechanised firing weapons we see
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evolving into guns and bombs. The German hammers and
maces of the medieval period and those used during the
religious wars between the Catholics, Protestants and
Mohammedeans, were created for one purpose: close
combat.
When a battle went sour and the cavalry charges,
discharges from archers and long bowmen, skirmishes
and general preliminary fighting had been done, the
stock and trade work of the infantry would begin. Swords,
axes, maces, pikes, spears, daggers, long knives and
hammers were all hoiked from their sheaths and brought
out to shatter, rend, split and cleave fully grown hard-
bitten men into chunks of hot meat. The hammer
therefore emerges as a weapon of nail biting violence.
The sword would have been a staple of the
infantrymans and mercenarys trade, with the
specialisation in axe, pike, spear or knife being subsidiary
to their use of the broadsword or rapier. The hammer on
the other hand would have been used along with the
mace as a weapon of pure unbridled violence. Whereas
the other weapons split skulls, chop off limbs or spill
innards with gashes, chops and slashes, the mace and
hammer are there just to obliterate. The wielder of such a
weapon would have had huge upper body strength,
control and agility which allowed him to wield such an
object at speed. When everyone around you was slashing
with swords it would have seemed utter madness to be
swinging a 5kg hammer or mace around your head. But
that was the point, when it did make contact, it took no
prisoners. The slab of metal meeting shield, armour,
gauntlet, naked arm, torso or skull would keep going
regardless, shattering bones, crushing skulls and
breaking spines. Admittedly it was slower, more
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cumbersome and more dangerous to the user than the
other weapons but this would have given it a terrifying
reputation among the warlords of the day only a
warmongering psychopath would use one. This is
essentially what we want to replicate.
What were trying to capture here is the ferocity,
the awkwardness and the skill involved with using this
cumbersome and heavy weapon. As with all Centurion
Method books the workouts are split into Conan (heavy),
Finn (explosive) and Romulus (endurance).
The sledgehammer is a formidable tool to sculpt
and tone muscle; you are effectively throwing around a
5kg+ weight attached to a pole, so in many ways the
movements we use will garner similar results to those
youd get with a kettlebell.


















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THE LEGIONNAIRE

As we said in the Training Manual the original
idea of the Centurion Method was to emulate the training
systems used by soldiers, warriors and hired killers
throughout history. As the name suggested, our primary
inspiration as everyone knows were the legionnaires of
Rome, the structure of the Legions and the Centurions
who guided them day by day in their rigorous training
system. One of the key things they did, which we perhaps
havent exaggerated enough in the Orthodox Training
Manual is the use of weighted body armour. Anyone who
has worn a 10kg+ weight vest whilst doing any workout
will know how immediate the effect is. Personal bests are
effectively halved, press ups are weak, burpees are
horrible, pull ups are socket popping and sprinting is
exhausting. I remember some of my earliest 4 mile runs
when the Method was being formulated involved me
running barefoot to a hill near my home wearing my 10kg
vest, carrying my 5kg sledgehammer and then doing
repeated uphill 100metre sprints at the top. One of the
final elements I planned to include was the use of a
gasmask or facial obscuration, to mimic the use of a
helmet or face guard that the legionnaires and gladiators
would have had to endure.
As we go into this, I want you to understand,
these workouts are the first step towards a creation of a
proper hardcore within the Centurion Method. If you
master these moves, get fit using this equipment then you
will see amazing results in your cardio fitness and ability
to move with explosive ease.
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You need three pieces of equipment to do these
workouts and to take the steps forward towards
mastering yourself and your weaknesses
1. A 10kg+ weight vest
2. A 5kg+ sledgehammer
3. A balaclava
The weight vest simulates and replicates the
carrying and wearing of heavy armour, wherever,
whatever the requirement placed on the soldier. The
sledgehammer can correspond to the weapon, be it
sword, axe, mace or in modern days gun. Finally the
balaclava gives that close, tense feeling of being
smothered by a mask or helmet which would obscure
your vision and capability.
When it comes to the workouts and the use of
the vest, hammer and mask we have focused on one
aspect that is core to each section and pushed it to its
limit. By doing this we will cover the various types of
muscle in the body, the fast twitch response and slow
eccentric twitch. This means the body will grow and
shape itself to respond perfectly to the sledgehammer
and weight vest, leaving you hard, sharp and fast.
So, as we move forward, unlike the other
Centurion Method books so far, there wont be a lot of
theory, were just going straight into the stances, their
description and then the workouts.

Forms and Stances

The following pages will describe in relative
detail the 9 stances that we will use throughout the
hammer workouts. We will be using these in various
combinations or as standalone moves, each one having
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several interpretations and possible uses which allow
them to slot together quite neatly into set pieces or
forms. We encourage you to go through the workouts and
add them into your cycle as it were with the standard
Training Manual, if you consciously do one or two
Sledgehammer workouts per week youll get a good solid
grounding in the use of the weapon before you know it.
Once you have a confident grip on the various moves you
can begin to work out your own way of slotting them
together and build your own workouts.
Before we go into the stances and look at how
they work and what they are for, we need to give you a
quick explanation of safety and how to hold/use the
hammer without damaging yourself.
Basically, to cut to the chase, anything that
rotates, skews, bends, angles or incorrectly aligns your
spine, will put all of the stress or weight youre holding
onto one vertebrae (usually the one with the strongest
angle in the bend), which will cause it to eventually either
pop out, crack or cause nerve damage. The basic premise
is that any movement which compromises your neutral
spine will eventually damage your spine.
Most people these days suffer with lower back
pain and/or spinal injury. It is apparently quite close to
everyone in western society has or will suffer from a bad
back at some point. This is due to the way they sit at a
desk, all day for five days a week in jobs focused on a
computer screen, how they sit in their car on their way to
and from work and how they sit at home whilst eating, sit
at home whilst watching TV and sleep in a springy soft
bed. Everything humans do is focused on the ease and
sedentary nature of modernity, no one ever stands up to
do anything or lift anything and then they wonder why
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they get bad backs when they do go into the gym and
incorrectly lift a 100kg barbell without warming up.
How do you maintain correct form? Lock your
core, focus on keeping your spine neutral, with its natural
S curvature, but when you come to do a lift or a swing or
whatever, just make sure the turn or rotation is done
through the hips, with the legs taking the weight and/or
the shoulders assisting and the arms carrying. You
NEVER want your spine to be bending under stress, or
rotating under violent strain. There is no point going into
this thinking its OK to swing a 5kg sledgehammer over
your shoulder and laugh when your back twinges or you
feel something click or crunch. Injury isnt funny and
spinal damage from weight lifting will have you in bed for
months, if not permanently in some extreme cases.
Right, now that weve explained spinal safety,
the moves are split up as follows.

Double arm stances

1. Starting stance
2. Battle swing/smash
3. Overhead swing/smash
4. Standard block
5. Horizontal swing
6. Dynamic axe swing
7. Nose touch

Single arm stances

1. Croquet swing block
2. Croquet swing pause
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So, what were dealing with are 7 moves that
require two hands on the sledgehammer and 2 moves
that require only one hand on the hammer. This is solely
because of control and safety elements. You could
technically do a one armed overhead swing, but it would
put a lot of strain on one shoulder or the rotator cuff, so
you should make sure you incorporate both arms to make
sure everything is balanced. The single arm stances are
allowed to be singular because they arent violent or
wrenching. It would probably benefit the hardened
sledgehammer user to begin side training in other
swinging exercises like those used in kettlebell training
etc.
The moves have been designed and sculpted
around a general half athletic and half martial artist
ethos. You can either focus on them tiring you out solely
for fitness purposes or you can really concentrate and
take it to its logical extreme and train as though youre in
battle/barracks etc.

First Form - Starting Stance

The starting stance; from here you should be able
to execute each of the main moves at speed. Legs
shoulder width apart, one leg slightly forward, front knee
with a slight bend, body weight spread between the legs
so you can be bouncy and soft, no stiffness or dominance
on one leg. You can think of this as similar to the Eagle
stance in European sword fighting, with one flick of the
wrist and a movement of the hands you can have the
sledgehammer in any one of the other positions from
which to begin training.

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Second Form - Battle Swing

This is the classic basic movement which all of
the other moves are based on in some way. The battle
swing is your staple movement so you want to have a
good controlled experience of how it works. For that
reason we would recommend trying it in various hand
positions, with hands too far down and too far up, just to
experience the difference it makes on the weight being
moved.
When it comes to proper practice, you want one
leg forward again, feet shoulder width apart, weight on
the front leg. The hammer starts up over the shoulder
opposite the front leg then you swing it aggressively
downwards toward an imagined point in front of you or
on the floor. At the end the hammer should stop in a
controlled and solid down by your hip. From here you
pull it back up to starting point.

Third Form - Overhead Swing

This is the movement you would use when doing
the sledgehammer tyres or ground assaults, it is a violent
overhead slam which brings the whole upper body
potential into the hammer and drives it home through
the tip. You can imagine this to be the movement most
people would instinctively gravitate to when using a
sledgehammer, driving posts, breaking rocks etc.
This time we have legs shoulder width apart, knees
braced in a slight squat, as if you were sitting on a high
wall, body weight spread evenly. The hammer is held
high above the head with the handle pointing downwards
and the head pointing high, you dont want it to drop
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below this point as you could lose control and smack
yourself in the back. From here you violently pull the
hammer down and either smash what youre hitting or
control it at its lowest point. Again you dont want the
hammer to pull you over, so make sure your squat
deepens as you do the rep, this will allow your torso to
remain neutral and the arms to do the work.

Fourth Form - Standard Block

Youre doing the opposite of what youve done so
far with the hammer, an upward scooping movement, as
if you were digging a hole with it. So start in a shallow
lunge, back leg taking most of the weight, supporting you
should you be pushed backwards. The hammer is pointing
downwards with one hand taking most of the weight,
whilst the other one will be used like a piston to drive the
hammer upwards and forwards in a half circle. Imagine
you are thrusting the hammer down into the soil and
then at its lowest point suddenly arcing upwards to jab
underneath someones chin, then pull backwards to the
start position.

Fifth Form - Horizontal Swing

This movement is basically a horizontal block.
Imagine you are swinging the hammer round across in
front of you to smash a shield out of the way so you can
thrust or jab inside the gap. This movement is heavy on
the twisting so make sure you dont rotate through the
spine, keep your hips and torso fluid and allow your
upper body to turn on the pelvis, if you do this
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incorrectly and with the necessary violence you will
damage your spine.
So, in the same stance as the overhead swing, a
slight squat with legs shoulder width apart, bring the
hammer to one side of your body horizontally. Then
violently but with control, bring the hammer out and
across your body, dont just circle it past yourself,
imagine there is something in front of you youre
knocking out of the way.

Sixth Form - Dynamic Axe Swing

What youre doing is simulating a fast, hard axe
swing toward a stationary object at about hip height. If
you were doing a fast chop like this you wouldnt execute
the move, stop, pull back and repeat, youd allow the
weight of the axe to dictate when the chop was made and
just follow it through and back.
Start in a shallow lunge with the hammer held
up at a diagonal, basically a shallow shortened version of
the battle swing position. Then bring the hammer down
violently to a diagonal controlled position, not as deep as
the normal chopping motion. At its lowest point drop
your elbow and allow the weight to pull the hammer
around so you get under it and it swings back up to the
start position of its own accord. The only way to describe
this is to imagine youre chopping wood, try to replicate
that and youll suddenly get it.

Seventh Form - Croquet Swing

Were now into the single handed movements
which give really strong and powerful muscular control
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of the hammer, allowing the explosive movements of the
previous stances to be executed with ever increasing
violence as you get fitter. This move is just a way of
getting your arm used to moving the weight of the
hammer around with control and ease.
Stand in the shallow lunge with weight
distributed evenly and with the hammer held down by
your side, grip about halfway down the handle. With a
controlled and willed motion, swing the hammer upwards
and in front of yourself so it pauses briefly in front of you,
now let it swing back down to the starting position evenly
and with ordered control.

Eighth Form - Croquet Swing Pause

This movement is almost exactly the same as the
previous one, but the hammer head is turned the
opposite way so it feels like less of a strike and more of a
scoop. This move when coupled with the previous one
will give you solid tight and useful muscles along the
forearm and supporting the elbow and shoulder.
Again, stand in the shallow lunge, legs shoulder
width apart, hammer held down by the side with the head
turned flat face on. Now in the same way as before, swing
it up in front of you (as in picture 2) but this time instead
of letting it fall back down, pause and hold it for a second
or two. You will feel this in your elbow, shoulder and
wrist, so make sure these are locked tight and do not
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Ninth Form - Nose Touch

This last stance is a real conditioner, it will give
you solid forearm control of the hammer in a way the
other moves cant. If you imagine the other stances as
being focused on violence and execution, this one is based
in precision and definition. The move is relatively well
known in some strength and conditioning circles so you
may have seen it before, were just doing a slight
variation.
With legs braced in a good solid stance, one you
feel comfortable holding for the entire group of reps,
hold the hammer out in front of you. Your highest hand
should be about halfway down the handle so that the
hammer feels slightly unstable as if it could sway if you
leant it too far one way. Now with the hammer head
pointing towards your face, look at the head and tilt it
towards your nose. Control the descent and kiss the head
to your face wherever you feel most comfortable. As you
get better at this move you can advance to doing it one
handed, but be warned, as I learned the hard way, when
you get tired you will drop the hammer into your face
and cause damage. Ive broken my nose and busted my lip
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GUERILLA WORKOUTS

Thors Hammer

Style:
10 Rounds

Workout:

0.5 mile hard run before doing -
1. 10 x Battle Swing to Standard Block (5 each side)
2. 10 x Horizontal Block (5 each side)
3. 10 x Battle Swing to Standard Block (5 each side)
4. 10 x Press Ups
5. 5 x Pull Ups

After all the rounds are complete, do

1. 30 x burpees














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Gods I Was Strong Back Then

Style:
10 Rounds

Workout:

0.5 mile hard run before -
1. 10 x Axe Swings (5 each side)
2. 10 x Nose Touch (5 each side)
3. 5 x Pull Ups
4. 10 x Axe Swings (5 each side)
5. 10 x Nose Touch (5 each side)
6. 20 x Press Ups
7. 16 x Croquet Swing Pause (8 each side)


















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Dragon Slayer

Style:
One timed run through

Workout:

You will need the sledgehammer, vest and a heavy rock.
And you will be doing a 1.5 mile hard run before doing
the following -

Superset no.1 x 3 (three sets, three times without rest in
between)
1. 50 x Battle Swing (25 each side)
2. 20 x jump squats
3. 50 x Standard Block (25 each side)

Superset no.2 x 3
1. 50 x Axe Swing (25 each side)
2. 20 x Lunges (10 each side)
3. 20 x Side Lunge to Jump Squat

Superset no.3 x 3
1. 50 x Nose Touch (25 each side)
2. 20 x Jump Squats
3. 25 x Military Press







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The Catholic Executioner

Style:
One timed run through

Workout:

Superset no.1 x 3 (three exercises back to back, three
times with no rest)
1. 20 x Battle Swings (10 each side)
2. 20 x Strict Squats
3. 20 x Jumping Scissor Lunges

Superset no.2 x 3
1. 20 x Axe Swings
2. 20 x Croquet Swings on the left
3. 20 x Croquet Swings on the right

Superset no.3 x 3
1. 30 x Standard Block (15 each side)
2. 20 x Battle Swings (10 each side)
3. 30 x Jump Squats (holding sledgehammer)











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Chopping Off Your Own Leg

Style:
2 Rounds

Workout:

0.5 mile hard run before -
1. 50 x Jump Squats
2. 50 x Lunges (25 each side)
3. 50 x Frog Leaps
4. 2 minute Plank
5. 25 x Bear Crawl Press Ups
6. 20 x Nose Touch
7. 30 x Axe Swings (15 each side)
8. 100 x Battle Swings (50 each side)
9. 100 x Bear Crawls
















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The Empire Strikes Back

Style:
One timed run through

Workout:

1. 1.5 mile run with vest, mask and hammer
2. 50 x Bear Crawl Push Ups
3. 50 x Dynamic Side Lunge Jumps (25 each side)
4. 3 x 100 yard sprints
5. 50 x Jump Squats
6. 100 x Battle Swings (50 each side)
7. 50 x Bear Crawl Push Ups
8. 100 x Axe Swings (50 each side)
9. 1.5 mile run with vest, mask and hammer

















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PRIMAL WORKOUT

This time, as opposed to the usual pattern, were
only doing one primal workout, and if youd like to get
really good with the sledgehammer, we recommend
doing it once every few weeks in place of your normal
Primal session.
There are no reps, no sets, nothing fancy. Just get
your weight vest and mask on and then sling your
sledgehammer over your shoulder and move out into the
woods. Walk for at least (at least) five miles, breaking into
a light run now and then, climbing trees, crossing
streams and generally navigating your native terrain
whilst wearing and carrying your equipment. Never put
your sledgehammer down and never take off your mask.
You will be surprised at how tiring this is and how
awkward it is to manoeuvre the sledgehammer around
obstacles without just putting it down on the ground.
This is the whole reason weve done it though, to show
you how important it would be to a soldier not to leave
their weapon lying around, to always be ready and to
always have your equipment to hand and ready to go,
regardless of weather or difficulties of the terrain.










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INTRODUCTION YOU WILL FAIL

(This expansion pack was intended to be the launch pad
for the biggest and most ambitious element of the
Centurion Method. It never got any further than the
notes you will read here. For that reason, chapters and
paragraphs may end abruptly and without finishing their
previously laid out format, I have however chosen to
leave it exactly as it is.)
Thus the Centurion Method enters its most
peculiar and insular phase of growth; Nietzsche and
particularly the master work Thus Spake Zarathustra have
driven me to begin working on a series of projects which I
believe will birth the Superman. I believe wholeheartedly
in the Doctrine of the Superman, the Superion, the Lord
of the Earth, the AntiChrist, and I believe that the
doctrine of Will to Power as espoused by Nietzsche and
others like him is the single purest adherence to divine
natural will in mankind through the most primitive
titanic gods such as Agni (Fire), Soma (Intoxication),
Indra (Heroism) and Siva (Creation-Al-Unity). I also
believe that the doctrine of slavish monotheistic
weakness and slavery as espoused by Saint Paul and
others like him is the single most abusive and abhorrent
rebellion against divine natural law that mankind has
ever pulled down from the heavens or up from the pits. In
my eyes the birth of the Superman and the utter
destruction of the Abrahamic faiths go hand in hand. The
Torah and the Talmud are wholly cultural texts which
have no bearing or logical sense when applied to the
minds of non-Jewish folk, and that is part and parcel of
the malaise of madness and insanity which has gripped
the world ever since a gang of rebellious Galileans
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attempted to abortively transplant their anti-faith onto
the Roman Empires pagan slaves.
Humanity was not ready for monotheism then, it
really only became ready for monotheism during the
French Revolution and the monotheism it then
manifested was one of no gods, no masters, the One
True God of the belligerent faceless mass of humanity.
Humanity at a cultural, communal level is only built for
polytheism and pantheism; this is quite simple, as any
phenomena, any inspiring heroes of the ancestry
automatically become gods in the eyes of the life hungry
savage; to entreat the gods to protect, assist and serve
you as a wild man living in the ferocious horror of the
Kashmiri jungle isnt just cultural, its common sense. I am
reminded that Nietzsche spoke of a spiritual atheism, a
cult of worship of the simplest forms of life and ancestry,
the true gods of the Timeless Superman, i.e. our much
celebrated fire, lightning, weapons, steel, war,
agriculture, the horse, the cow etc.
These concepts are core to the Praetorian way of
life. Because that is what were doing here, were creating
something entirely new, a new way of life, stripped back,
burnt up, only the useful metal in the black ashen
remnants exposed to be re-collected and put to purpose.
Lets continue this journey together then, and remember
that each stepping stone upon the path will be but a
flickering smudge of grey light through the all-
encompassing murk when we reach the lofty heights of
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WHAT IS THE PRAETORIAN?

We named the three grades of the Centurion
Method after the Spartan Agoge training system. The
beginner/child is the Paides, the intermediate/teen is
Paidiskoi and the competent/adult is Hebontes. But we
always knew there had to be a grade above and beyond,
the athlete who always doubles everything, doesnt feel
tired after our workouts or is starting to evolve towards
something altogether more. This was the Praetorian, and I
basically made it something elitist and cruel.
There is an idea that true elitism comes from
something altogether unattainable with human effort,
something inborn from the moment you wake, yes or no,
plus or minus, you either have it or you dont. That is
what defines the Praetorian, and I personally believe
most (if not all) of the people doing the Centurion Method
have that something extra. Praetorian may be defined
by a set of scores on a fitness test but the true test of
elitists is in their appreciation and application of the
other of which we speak. What were talking about is a
spiritual elitism, in some way you could describe it in
Nietzschean terms and call it a spiritual separatism. A
separation between those who intrinsically live life in a
certain way and those who literally could not live it that
way, and the gulf between the two is so large it could
almost be seen in a Darwinian sense that were talking
about two different species among the human race.
We can define what the Praetorian is, by defining
what he or she is not. The Praetorian is not defined by the
parameters of the slave religions, Christianity, Judaism
and Islam. He is not hemmed in by moral codes of
humanism or defined by the strictures of a modern
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society. Where others see a beautiful church designed by
skilled medieval architects which should be celebrated in
museum form down the ages, he sees a relic of a dead
religion which should be burned to the ground and
everything in it melted down to be reused for a more
practical purpose. The slave religions define themselves
by kneeling, by veiling, by hiding from the God they
worship as their father; humanity is unworthy to look
upon God, the YHWH/Allah complex demands that men
bow their heads, avert their eyes, that women dare not be
fleshy before him, that they remain indoors and hidden
from sight, carnality and humanity is maligned, urge and
desire are repressed, it is an asceticism of the corrupt.
The Centurion Method on the other hand celebrates
femininity and masculinity, celebrates fertility, celebrates
nudity and the fleshy carnality of the human experience.
The anti-religion of the Ubermensch/Superion/Antichrist
is defined by standing up, proud, tall, by unveiling,
evolving, by standing before the gods as companions,
walking with the gods hand in hand, this is Promethean,
this is Apollonian, this is Dionysian, the New Man stands
enthroned before God and worships him as brother,
worthy to look upon the gods because he has overcome
himself and become briefly like them.
The slave religions begin their diatribes with the
same story, the tale of the Fall of Man from the Garden of
Eden because a whorish woman fucked a demonic snake
and fathered the first murderer and then caused
humanity to be cast out into an eternal desertCrucially
the story tells us what we need to know about
Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the man and woman (at
the snakes nudging) eat of the fruit of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil, and thenceforth have an
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idea of morals, of right and wrong, they become human,
fleshy, mortal. The YHWH then banishes them lest they
eat of the Tree of Life and become as Godsso the God
of the slave religions banished his creations because he
feared that humanity would seek to become the same as
God. It is the fundamental cardinal sin of Satan, hubris,
pride, ego, desire to become the same as God. The diatribe
in Isaiah about the King of Babylon in comparison to
Lucifer describes the scene, look it up. The slave religions
define themselves by saying you cannot dare be like God,
never try, just be a slave, hide your eyes and hope he
turns his gaze from you, if you sin hell put you in hell.
YHWH is a wife beater. Allah is an abusive husband.
The religion of the elite on the other hand, the religion of
the Vedic Brahmins, the ancient Japanese, the Indo-
Europeans, the Greeks, Romans, Slavs, and the pre-
Islamic religions of the Arabs, indeed the religions of all
indigenous peoples encourages the polar opposite.
Shamans and priests unify with god and temporarily
become god through a Soma/intoxicant function,
through divine ecstasies they become the same as their
gods and celebrate the beauty of a human becoming the
same as a god/animal. The warriors and athletes of the
community are lauded as being the same as the gods, it is
in direct conflict with the slave religion.
This is the Praetorian of the Centurion Method.
A man or woman who has defined themselves by
excelling, expanding, evolving and leaping ever forwards,
ever onwards. Crom may look down from his mountain
and send only death and destruction, but as weve said
before it is for the ascension and testing the mettle of his
followers. As Conan says, if he doesnt know the Riddle of
Steel then Crom will laugh at him and cast him out of
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Valhalla. This is a god who expects something, who wants
something from his sons and daughters, not veils and
hymns and sacrifice, but bloodshed, warfare, life.
Humanity can be easily divided into two
opposing classes, two spiritual creatures who war
constantly against each other. There are the spiritual
dullards who see nature as something to be used and
abused, something to be fought against as a creature of
darkness and malignancy and evil, they worship an alien
god, a lofty anthropomorphic madman who seeks their
adherence to rules and regulations lest they be cast out
into an eternal maelstrom of permanent death (certain
schools of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and paganism
can be included in this usually Judeo-Christian sect). And
there are the spiritual supermen who see nature as
something to be worshipped, a constant cathedral of
beauty and perfection, a playground of violence to be
celebrated and driven ever onwards, they worship nature
itself and everything in it, as the only real thing; there is
no green grass, milk and honey afterlife, no paradise to
flee to that is better or more worthy than this life, only
reincarnation and the promise of more life, more
happiness, more violence and ever cycling creation. The
spiritual elite have often been regarded as being nihilistic
or negatively atheistic, but it is the exact opposite, he
who sees Gods only in the abstract and the separate will
never see holiness and religion in the most mundane and
everyday objects. The spiritual dullard will never
appreciate the beauty and godliness of a raven or a wolf,
he will never worship at the foot of the mound of skulls of
his slain enemies, he sees only death and destruction in
this life. But the spiritual superman sees that same
mound of skulls as a celebration of his supremacy over
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his peers, his fitness as Darwin would say, he not only
celebrates the wolf and the raven, he adores them, his
companions, his loved ones, his fellows on this path
through the black dawn of life.
I once read an account of how a Nordic warrior
described existence; he said life is a dove flying in from
the darkness, through an open window in a beautiful
warm and fire lit long hall, filled with drinking and
feasting and sex and fighting, the dove flies as fast as it
can from one end of the hall to the other and goes out the
opposite window, out into the darkness, out into the
abyss. This is life. This is why the spiritual dullards call us
nihilists, because we see the tragic, fantastic beauty in
coming in from the cold darkness of death, flying
headlong through life as bright stars flaming in the night,
and then being extinguished, violently, suddenly, back
out into the darkness of death. Those who do not see the
poetry, the wonder, the graceful majesty of that
metaphor are missing the entire point of existence. Shiva
has passed them by.
We may parody and ape the words and themes of
the esoteric Gnostic cults, but we do not believe this life is
a Maya, a tragic illusion, we believe it is a playground and
the toys are your fellow creatures on this earth. War is a
game. Sex is a challenge. Eating and drinking and
mastering the flesh are not commands or ascetic
demands they are games being played by the characters
to see who is best. Celebrating our spiritual elitism we
celebrate that which would cause us to die. We smile
grimly and with wolfish laconic grin, say with the
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A SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL ELITE

What have we described therefore in the
Praetorian?
The person who is endeavouring to become the
ideal human, the perfect creature who will outlast and
outgun all others; this is not a creature mired in the
servitude and utopianism of the good citizen of the
state, it is the Ubermensch in flesh. To put it bluntly, this
Praetorian must display an astute and razor sharp
personality, he or she will not be the kind of person who
fades into the background but takes the lead and
dominates any given situation. There will be a field of
study or a discipline into which the Praetorian has found
a love or a calling and has focused their victorious intent
on mastery within that field. All forms of physical
aptitude and competence will be sought after; the
Praetorian will be disgusted with himself if he is found
lacking in a specific segment of his training. He will be
brash, and almost aggressive in his determination and
desire for greatness in everything he approaches.
There will be a nobility and a feel of the wild wolf
to him, a presence that makes people balk with horror or
fall immediately in love, his mere gaze will feel as though
the eyes of the barely tamed beast have fallen upon ye. He
will be proud, have a sense of principle and be utterly
devout in his observation of rules he has set up for himself
and for no other, and no rule made by another man will
hold sway over him unless he respects and admires (or at
least fears) the person administering it. There will be a
willingness, nay an eagerness to be sacrificed for a
greater goal, a hunger for any form of bloodshed and
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heroism, whether it be on the battlefield or in the
everyday battles of will between fellow humans.
A chivalric sense of honour, built only on his own
ideals will sculpt everything he does, a knightly code
which makes him adjust his approach or speech toward
man, woman or child, be that superior, equal or inferior.
He or she will be highly intelligent, scorning the
weakness of the flesh whether handed down by genetics
or education, he will malign this inability in himself and
do everything in his power to right it or display
everything he is capable of otherwise.
An attitude of dominance and superiority which
manifests not through violence towards the weaker or
stronger but towards the self, a hunger for overcoming
the beast within, synthesising it and manifesting a unity
of the aspects of the Wolf God Wotan/Grimm with the
Chthonic Wolf Fenrir/Fenris. There will be a self-control
which demands the highest forms of discipline and
eternal conflict between the lower and higher aspects of
the self, a spirituality which creates energy, a spark, a
static electricity from the schism between the primal and
modern selves. A soul abundant, brimming with energy
and life force will cast a lofty and cruel gaze upon
everything it touches, the freedom and independence of
the spirit which knows no cage or fence to hem it in. The
imagination will run wild with a determination and
authenticity which sculpts the world into a playground of
numinous and sorcerous intent.
The esoteric and the magical will play as
important a role as the rational, but logic and a sense of
certainty will allow for the fanciful and idiotic barbarism
of emotionalism to be dominated, entirely within the
sphere of personal existence. The Praetorian will be
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studious and innovative, carving out for him or herself an
entirely new doctrine, a new myth, a place in the New
Aeon as governed by the Crowned and Conquering Child,
the War God.
This creature will forever be inspired by the
actions and exploits of mythical, lofty and heroic
mythology which will govern his or her choices in the
modern world. In short, the Praetorian will be an almost
entirely new creation, a spiritually pagan warrior
perhaps not seen since the Legions sacked Jerusalem,
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SURVIVING VERSUS THRIVING

The immediate question I would expect any
Praetorian, Berserker or Spearwife, to ask would be why
are we doing this? Its too obvious to rely fully on one
aspect of your psyche or physicality; its too easy, too
mundane, too slavish. What were trying to get you to
understand is that the Praetorian is a master, the first
step towards a Conan, a barbarian with the instincts and
brutality of the wild but the intellect and learning of a
civilised priesthood. As the Romanised Scottish gent says
to the young William Wallace at his fathers funeral, first
you learn to use this (tapping him on the head) then you can
learn to use this (hands him the sword). This is central to
what were doing.
Anyone can survive, anyone can learn to use
tools, anyone can light a fire when shown how to by an
expert, the key thing here is the difference between
surviving and thriving. The average human, even the
lowliest human, if gifted by nature with the most
belligerent and cruel of attitudes will survive the hardiest
of situations just through sheer determination and will.
The exceptional human, the master of his body, his mind
and his surroundings will not just belligerently knuckle
down and get on with it, but adapt, violently quickly and
thrive through that same determination and will. This is
what has seen humans building massive columned
terraces and blooming gardens in the harsh semi-fertile
deserts of North Africa and also in the mountains of
Tibet, and the glittering memory of mythical Hyperborea
and Atlantis, Lemuria and Thule. The will to survive is a
basic human urge; even a worm has a basic urge to pull
itself back into the soil when it feels a shadow upon its
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flesh, because it could be a bird. But the will to thrive,
this is something specialist and the reserve of the higher
mammals, birds and reptiles, the alpha hunter species,
the will to dominate the landscape and to be the top of
the food chain, that is the thriving instinct.
In the modern era the will to thrive is the will to
become a master of the faculties of mind, body and spirit.
The slave minded Christian is a typical example of the
weakness and lack of concern for each of these
disciplines. The Christian is an idiot, he relies on one book
to do his thinking for him. Ask him a question and he will
go, one moment, let me check what the Bible says and
begin to wrack his brain for an answer, he is like the
Israelite scouring the Talmudic regulations, or the
Muslim searching the commentaries on the Quran to tell
him what he can or cannot do. A book, a two thousand
year old (or older) book telling a living breathing human
what to do now, nothing could be more idiotic, weak or
defining of the slave mentality.
The Christian is also weak in the flesh, he is a
sickly, pasty, ascetic who is usually either obese in the
extreme or wasting away from malnutrition, the Bible is
interestingly quiet on the dietary requirements for the
servants of Christ, except in saying that the dietary
regulations of the Torah are abandoned, so the Christian
eats like a slave, confused as to what to eat, but certain
that he should be eating. He does not keep fit, he does
not concern himself with the fears and hopes of the
world, for he is looking toward a glittering and white
litten afterlife where his body will be free from the
corruption of the fleshy realm. Pathetic. Any sportsman
who claims to be a Christian, or a Jew or a Muslim, is a
liar, the doctrines of slavish monotheism are contrary to
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the will of man, the will to maintain and adapt the flesh
for the mere narcissism of being beautiful is contrary to
the Biblical precept. The Christian sportsman is a fake.
Finally, the Christian is a spiritual moron; he
cannot feel and experience the emotive beauty of nature,
because nature is the Devils playground. Mountainside
and forest are no longer the church of the living god
because the slave religions have put god into manmade
buildings of garish icons and whitewashed walls, pages of
worm eaten Bibles and leather bound prayer books. The
religion of the master is that of the wild, the beauty and
truth of nature and the undeniable laws of the jungle, for
the Christian this is the realm of Satan, of the Fall from
Eden and the darkness and terror of a dog eat dog world.
The Christian St Paul as an exemplar of slave morality
dictates that the follower of Christ is an idiot mentally, a
cripple physically and a spiritual ignoramus.
Nothing could be more diametrically opposed to
Christianity than the mind, body and spirit we seek you,
as a Praetorian to have. The Praetorian should be, as we
have said, intelligent, physically capable and spiritually
masterful. Everything is a message, everything a
prophecy, every metaphor and symbol a walking, talking,
breathing god for the Praetorian to worship. Every
moment is a chance to become better, more aware, more
like the gods.
I write for a species of Man that does not yet exist:
for the Masters of the Earth.
Oh my brothers, your nobility shall not gaze
backward, but outward! You shall be fugitives from all
fatherlands and fore-fatherlands!
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A dominating race can only grow up out of terrible
and violent beginnings. Problem: where are the barbarians of
the twentieth century?
You solitaries of today, you who have seceded from
society; you shall one day be a people; from you, who have
chosen out of yourselves, shall a chosen people spring and
from this chosen people, the Superman.
Quotes from Nietzsches various works, mostly
the Antichrist, Thus Spake Zarathustra and Will to Power,
have often been used by political activists to advance a
specific social aim, but people tend to forget that
Nietzsche never directly stated what or who the
Superman would be, only that it would not be of the slave
morality, i.e. not Christian. In my eyes what Nietzsche
spoke of slots perfectly in with the morality and the
mentality of the Centurion Method. A future moral,
which is rooted in the past, and only worships strength,
power and domination, truly a new (but ancient) religion,
a new (but ancient) politic, a new (but ancient) moral, and
a New (Cyclical) World Order for a New
(Cycling/Returning) Aeon. In the Superman we see
foreshadowed the very idea of the Antichrist, the man
who would declare himself God, in the same way as
Antioch Epiphanes did in the Jewish Temple when the
Greeks sacked Jerusalem. This is what the Christian
mendicant St John feared the most when he was writing
the Revelation, a future man who would rule the earth by
the sheer force of his will and his demonic intent to
become a god and set up a political-religious-epoch where
the man in nature and not the abstract Deus is
worshipped. If this is heresy, then we are proud heretics.
How do the above quotes relate to what we are doing
then? Well, specifically, Nietzsche speaks of a type of man
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who has seceded from society. In a wilful act, a sect of men
who have separated, withdrawn, broken away from the
decadent society they so loathe. Nothing could better
describe the end goal of the Centurion Method, readying
a folk from across the world to exist separate from the
society they see around them, living in the wilderness,
setting up training Pits and systems of self-government,
entirely separate from the left vs. right, good vs. evil
political/social paradigm which so expertly cripples men
of action.
Nietzsche also speaks of the violent beginnings of
conquering peoples, obviously referring to his much
favoured and adored people, the Romans. We have much
celebrated the origins of the Romans, in Romulus and
Remus. The peasant shepherds suckled by a wolf giantess,
forming a warrior band and raping and pillaging their
way across western Italy before founding the city of
Rome, after a brief fratricidal episode. We can look at any
empire and see the same foundation in bloodshed and
violence. Whilst the Centurion Method is by no means
claiming to be the foundation of a future empire, we are
quite clearly demanding that the people who take part,
especially ye Praetorians, make of yourselves Barbarians,
wholly separate and outcast from society. Outlaws,
criminals, absolved of any of the logic or sensibility that
the so called modernity dictates, from this school of
barbarians, we can hope, we can dream, that someone
somewhere will be the spark that ignites the tinder
Finally, Nietzsches idea that the Superman would be
spawned from an outcast and separate people, much as
Jesus came from among the perpetually enslaved and
exiled Israelites and Judeans. Nietzsche obviously saw in
the Superman a form of the Antichrist, a man or men
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whose lives would parody and mock that of the Messiah,
arising out of a separated and conquering (as opposed to
a conquered) people, giving birth to a new species of man
with a new religious/political/social excellence, in direct
opposition to the Christ who came among the poor, the
weak, the sick and the slaves to preach a socialist gospel
for the downtrodden. Nietzsche can only have been
speaking of a type of man and woman who feel at odds
not only with the current society and all its ills but totally
in opposition to the entirety of history, as he said, the
Ubermensch would look back on man in the same way
that men look back on the ape, as a laughing stock and an
embarrassment.
How is this applicable to you as a Praetorian
then? Well, you have demanded excellence from yourself
in the physical, it only makes sense that you demand that
same excellence from yourself in the spiritual and mental
as well. We will always be demanding extra madness from
you in the field of the workout, but it is down to you to
become masters of your own will and your own minds.
Rolling all of this into one creature, what do we have?
The Praetorian has surely been elevated in your eyes to
something altogether higher, more pristine and much
more devilish than you had previously thought.
The Praetorian is now enthroned as the New Man, a
philosopher after Nietzsches heart, a magician in the
ritual school of a simplified Crowlean mysticism, a
scholar and a learned poet, artist and writer in the
discipline of the old forms of magick and self-
improvement, a military tactician, a warlord of the
highest and worst kind. The Praetorian becomes
something entirely separate to the world of men, what
has he to share with the civilised world? He becomes
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Conan in flesh, a creature of pure will power, defining
himself and his peers by their ability to fight, their ability
to think and to create, at fundamental odds with the
crippling weakness of the modern world.
This is therefore a spiritual asceticism founded
through physical expression, an elevation of the soul
through the destruction and phoenix like rebirth of the
flesh. There is nothing anti-fleshy here, we are not
fasting, meditating, or denying the flesh to elevate the
soul out of the dying world; we are feasting, ritualising,
and sculpting the flesh to elevate the soul to mastery of
the dying world. This paradox is beautiful in its simplicity
and complexity, and we can safely say with proud upright
hearts, that no one has endeavoured to change human
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BECOMING THE GOD OF THE BARBARIANS

Your usefulness as a human being is based solely
on your abilities. Human beings have no innate
usefulness. Usefulness is determined by suitability to a
task, and thus if a leader of a project was asked to choose
men or women suited to his needs he would choose based
on the requirements of the task in hand. If we were
talking for a moment on the basis of survival in a post-
apocalyptic world or war torn nation and the might
exerted by the paramilitary leader over his peers,
enemies and underlings, we would be looking at a few
core requirements.
The project leader would be looking for
intelligence, wit, ability to command, leadership,
charisma and logic, all based in the mind. He would then
be looking for a physical presence, military ability,
fighting experience, fitness and an indomitable will
focused through physicality. Finally he would look for
someone who shared his ideal, fanatically so, someone
either ferociously loyal to him as a person or loyal to the
idea he served, whether that was a religion, political
dogma or plain old hunger for the spoil of war. To put it
very bluntly, if this man was asked to find a use for a man
of low intelligence, poor fitness and who opposed his
fundamental idealism then he would probably sooner
have that person executed and dumped in a ditch, than
serving as a commander in his force.
The same is true of ALL projects or endeavours.
We have the illusion of equal rights in the modern era but
nothing could be further from the truth. Why are failed
students who didnt get a single grade in any subject not
allowed to work in nuclear power plants? Why are the
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physically unfit not allowed to serve in the frontline
special forces of a military? Why are militant atheists not
allowed to become priests in the Catholic Church?
Because they are unsuited to the task, they are unfit for
the task, they are contradictory to the task at hand.
Nothing could be more politically incorrect or despised in
the current era. Instead of finding someone suited to the
task and celebrating their fitness for the task, we alter
the task to allow a lower and less suitable candidate the
equal opportunity alongside the suitable candidate. This
has nothing to do with individual liberty or the civil
rights of the human animal, this has to do with common
sense and stupidity.
In the film 300 we have the perfect example. The
deformed son of a disgraced Spartan warrior approaches
Leonidas and asks to serve in the military alongside those
he considers his brothers in arms. Leonidas commends
him on his loyalty, his Spartan mentality and his strong
spear thrust, but he asks him to display a key physical
requirement for the phalanx; the defence of the person to
his left with the shield, head to foot, key to the operation
of the small but elite unit. The recruit cannot do this
because of the deformity on his back, and contrary to
Spartan law Leonidas offers him an equally worthy and
important position behind the frontline removing the
wounded and killing the maimed that remain.
Let us repeat the key points, the applicant is
unsuited to the task, he is keen, intelligent, has a good
use of the weapons, but a crucial element is missing and
he is refused entry to the frontline units. But Leonidas
does not refuse him service, he simply adapts his position
according to his abilities and usefulness. The fact that the
recruit is disgusted with himself and curses Leonidas and
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the Spartans and goes on to betray them to the Persians is
beside the point. The King did all in his power to adjust
the usefulness of the applicant for the suited task.
I will repeat ityour usefulness as a human being is based
solely on your abilities. You could blag your way through
life clamouring for fairness and equality and demanding
that you be treated the same as your superiors, or you
could master your weaknesses and excel beyond everyone
else, demanding more of yourself and the entire human
race in the process.
Let us talk then about how the Praetorian
approaches his or her usefulness. You want to be chosen
when the time comes, you want to be a born leader, you
want to be intelligent, witty, commanding, charismatic,
logical, physical, dangerous, experienced in combat, fit,
brimming with will power, idealistic, fanatical, loyal and
terrifying when focused on a specific outcome. That
person might sound rare, but it is not, all mental faculties
are an illusion, all illusion is mere hypnosis, card trickery
and mind games. Neurons are there to be remapped and
people are there to be adjusted according to your Will, all
else is mere fantasy and sentimental bullshit. You are the
Master of your own outcome, so Master it.
The Praetorian approaches these problems by
looking to the Will Power Pyramid. Much the same as the
Get Huge Pyramid of the Esoteric Exercise book, it
requires as much if not equal Will being exerted into all
three areas at the same time, thus the triangle must be
equilateral.
This Will Power Pyramid is something Lucy and I
came up with in response to our own experiences of will
power suffering due to excess or atrophy in a particular
area. Lucy was first to note that when she felt a pull
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towards a natural pagan expression of her adoration or
worship of the spirit she felt a lessening of will power in
the urge toward keeping her body in shape or exercising
her intelligence. This then manifested in the triangle
becoming misshapen, will power pulling away from the
body and the mind and being forced toward more
spirituality which caused it to get more and more out of
sync, eventually flat-lining and dropping out as it were.
This means that you can effectively burnout mentally,
physically and spiritually. Any exertion of Will in one
direction, at the expense of the others will cause a slump
or depression in the others. This is why you get the
spiritual or intellectual scholar who is fat and physically
useless. And on the other end of the spectrum the
physically fit jock who is stupid and almost illiterate.
These people throughout their whole life have pushed
their Will in one direction and the others have suffered
throughout their short existence, resulting in a
potentially high athleticism or scholarly approach to life
but an almost permanent atrophied severance with the
other aspects of Will.
These facts have rarely been spoken of. The
Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and (to a lesser extent) Islamic
mind holds scholarship, study, ascetic appreciation of the
scriptures or practice of prayer/meditation above all else,
at the expense of the sinful and fallen flesh. Physical
fitness in the eyes of the Christian, Jew or Muslim is solely
for evangelism, proselytizing or defence of the faith, it
has no virtue in itself, because this life is a lie, an illusion
and should be abhorred for the sake of God and the future
everlasting we can look forward to.
Nothing could be further from the truth for the
spiritually polytheistic. This life is all we have to look
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forward to, here and now, this is Eden, this is the
Messianic Kingdom, this is the Ummah, this is the result
of Tikkun Ha Olam, this is the End of Time, there is
nothing else to come, only this flesh, this mind, this
spirit. In the eyes of the Praetorian therefore, to let the
mind suffer, the spirit suffer or the body suffer for the
sake of some introspective metaphysical hereafter is the
greatest sin. We abhor the flesh for its weakness, we
abhor the mind for its forgetfulness and we abhor the
spirit for its separation from Godhead, but we do not
mortify or refuse, we elevate and we celebrate. We see the
weakness of the flesh and we sculpt it into something
better, we see the stumbling of the unexercised mind and
we study, we learn, we see the separation of spirit with
matter and we endeavour to become immortal, always
striving, always hunting, never satisfied. This is the
Superman.
The Brahmin of the Vedic ritual, the magician,
the yogi, the ritual priest, he used to spend his life buried
in the study of the mind, no more. The Kshatriya of the
Vedic war band, the warrior, the soldier, the fighter, he
used to spend his life buried in the study of war and
battle, no more. Now we call upon the Praetorian to study
warfare with the fervent hunger of the Brahmin and we
ask him to study the inner workings of the spirit with the
desperate fanaticism of the Kshatriya. This is the total
man, the warrior monk, the Knight of the Temple, the
Samurai, the magician philosopher and soldier in one
creature. We do not believe that to be too lofty a
statement to make
In mastering the self and mastering the Will
Power Pyramid the Praetorian will essentially unify those
aspects within himself and suddenly (and this is the
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absolute key to understanding everything the Centurion
Method does) the pyramid will become one absolute
endeavour. No longer will he or she have to think I need
to work out, then study, then meditate, the three will
become one. The workout will become a spiritual
practice, the study of Vedic ritual will become a history
lesson, a spiritual meditation and inspiration for future
workout. The hymns to the ancestors will be performed
on the top of impassable hills and among forested groves,
and to not workout in their presence would become a
blasphemy in the eyes of the Praetorian. This is the
transcendence of the mind-body-spirit paradigm and the
stepping through the veil into the perfect form of the
Superman. This is divinity experiencing physicality, the
full possession of the devil, the mark of the beast, the
absolute Antichrist.
Suddenly as we step forward on this path we
realise that the workout as it was spoken of in the
Centurion Method Training Manual becomes nothing but
a stepping stone towards something much bigger. We no
longer see the purpose in a workout if it is just for the
sculpting of the flesh to a bigger and stronger, faster and
leaner end, which is but the exoteric entry grade to the
master work of the hidden Wolf Kvlt.
We have to ask ourselves what the point is for a
Praetorian to continue viewing himself as anything but a
Superman in training? Why is he doing anything? Why is
he mastering every aspect of himself if not for the loftiest
goal imaginable? If you truly believe fitness is an end to
itself, as Communism or Fascism is in relation to the
state, then we have truly missed the point somewhere
along the line. Fitness is a means to an end; meditative
power, the siddhas themselves are but powers and
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expressions of a much bigger metamorphosis. Achieving
Samadhi by throwing your shit at virgins on their way to
temple is not going to make you a god, but the realisation
that comes with throwing your shit at the virgins, that
will make you a god.
The workout then becomes a metaphor for
something infinitely bigger than a mere I want to look
good for the beach or I want to get a boyfriend. Those
concerns suddenly become absolutely laughable. The
workout must become a metaphor for the entire spiritual
quest, for the human being itselfthe workout is our goal
as human beings.
This is the Capricornian quest for godhead, the
facing of the self, the crawling up out of the dross of the
chthonic abyssic depths (the serpentine/draconic/hellish
tail of the Capricornus) and up the mountain of the
ascended Halls of Olympus (the
goat/Luciferian/Promethean head of the Capricornus).
Face the self, defeat the self, Thor facing the Serpent,
Michael and the Devil, Indra and the Dragon, the
lightning/sun/bolt god facing his chaotic self in the
underworld and defeating it, synthesising it, unifying
with it. The goat that climbs the mountain unified with
the snake that swims in the depths, the re-merging of the
Sephiroth with the Qliphoth now that the Judaic
nonsense of the Old Aeon Kabbalah has been abandoned.
Siva and Vishnu now sit enthroned together as brothers,
the creator who destroys and the destroyer who creates,
one incarnate in the other, the divine will perfected
through the overcoming of the flesh. Does this sound like
your train of thought when you work out?
Fundamentally this is the spiritual/physical
application of the Ragnarok myth. Each archetype, each
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hero, each villain manifests as a pure inner being and
faces itself in naked battle, every god with its chaotic
opposite, killing each other in an apocalyptic twilight of
the gods. All duality destroyed, all opposition unified with
its direct enemy, all enmity destroyed in the naked joy of
violence. This is the end of time, and from the ashes of
this violence, the new creation is born, the Superman.
You are reborn from the ashes of your old self, all aspects
synthesised in one flesh. You are God.

The Fellowship

Finally let us look to the Praetorian and his
attitude, his mind, the way he approaches those around
him, the way he interacts with the Berserkers and
Spearwives of the Method who encouraged him to always
go one step further and to push himself to the absolute
limits. This has never been a brotherhood accepting of
limitations and weaknesses, we have always demanded
the utmost from everyone, regardless of background or
cultural prejudice. Everyone has access to the materials
the Centurion Method needs, more so if youre poor and
living in a poor country in a rural environment. If
anything the middle class city dweller in the developed
country will struggle to find a true wilderness, logs, rocks
and weapons without attracting the attention of the
Thought Police and the malignant snootiness of the
common herd.
This Praetorian brotherhood, the Legion of the
Black Flame, the Wolf Kvlt par excellence, this entity
must be held in the highest regard by the participants.
This is no longer something you can pick up or put down,
it is no longer a way you keep fit, if it is just that to you
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then the time has come to move on my friend, the end
result of the Centurion Method is not something you
want to be a part of.
The majority of the Berserkers and Spearwives
will remain between Paides grade and Hebontes, never
truly aspiring to dedicate their entire life, their every
waking moment to the sculpting of something altogether
more terrifying. Even those who reach Praetorian or who
enter the system at Praetorian grade may achieve a level
of fitness that is frighteningly useful, but never aspire to
becoming something much bigger, much more dangerous
or spiritually and mentally qualitative alongside their
fitness. That may sound contradictory, but the true
Praetorian will understand.
Lucy has always maintained that the mantra of
this book, the mantra of the Praetorian should be you
will fail, and you will, you absolutely will. But the point
is, and this is part of the deeper mystery of the difference
between us and the rest of the world, you will rise again.
You will fall, you will collapse, you will injure yourself,
you will be exhausted and you will feel true, undeniable,
real pain, but that is not the point, it is the standing back
up again, and from the ashes of your old self that used to
say just give up, youve failed will now roar the new voice
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PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

As we begin to understand how we will develop
this new idea and this new way of working, we must
address the creature that you will become. We have
touched on why in the last chapter, now we must
address the how.
Firstly, we know what people say about the
Centurion Method, we knew from the moment we started
this project that certain detractors would immediately
begin to shout from the rooftops. We will not answer
them directly, well just keep going forward and trample
their corpses into the dust of our new roads, but we will
briefly touch on their neurosis.
Weakness despises strength, as Nietzsche said,
the strong love strength in others, a strong enemy
encourages greater strength in you. This is why we get
strange tales of soldiers during World War 1 and 2
stopping the fighting briefly to chat, swap cigarettes and
treat each other like friends, to then return to their
respective positions, as if they had shared a half time slice
of orange, and then resume killing each other. To the
weak this is terrifying, they have no way of
comprehending it, the strong are abhorrent to them, the
very flesh we inhabit makes them quiver with fear, for
beyond the walls and the fences of their cities which have
softened and weakened them even further, they have no
defence whatsoever. So called politicians, pseudo-
intellectuals, bankers, celebrities and the rest of the
everyday herd have nothing to protect themselves in the
wild.
The weakness of the modern world despises all
forms of strength, it fears them, fears the prospect of
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what horrors would be meted out upon it when the naked
displays of masculine force devoid of technology were let
loose upon the coagulated populaces of our swollen cities.
Technological superiority is the last redoubt of a
desperate and dying people, much as the Romans thought
their military might was vastly superior to the Goths, the
Barbarians, the Huns, with their simple wild tactics, how
wrong they proved to be, fucking and drinking and
partying whilst their precious city burned
The Centurion Method to the eyes of the weak
presents everything they despise in one doctrine. We
celebrate physical mastery, we celebrate the ancestry of
the user, we ask the Arab to celebrate his heritage in the
sack of Jerusalem, the Turk to celebrate the ransack and
massacre of Constantinople, just as we ask the American
to celebrate the victories of Washington, and the
Frenchman to celebrate the rivers of blood pouring from
the Bastille or the Russian the populist revolt trampling
all under iron shod hoof. We dont care. It is all the same.
Weakness overcome with strength. That is the Law of the
Wild, it is the Iron Law, the Law of the Jungle, the Iron
Price, anyone who disputes its absolute command and
control of nature and the history of mankind is a mere
fantasist and idealist of the worst kind.
We demand a new solution, a new politic, a new
barbarism, a new cult and a new strength. Our foes in the
old senate can witter and count the theoretical hairs on
the angels arse cheek whilst we are sharpening blades
and climbing mountains
What must be understood by the Praetorian
however is the enormity of the duty which falls into his
lap as a strong creature. Strength is not merely defined by
the ability to lift something, nor is it defined by the
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ability to dominate those who are weaker than you,
conversely and quite contradictorily the truly strong will
only ever test their strength against those equally
matched. The Centurion Method and the Praetorian we
seek to build would be stepping into dangerously
totalitarian territory if we asked you to start dominating
the weak and actually crushing them physically with your
own two hands. That is the preserve of the tyrant and the
fanatic of the worst kind. The truly strong, the Kshatriya
and the Brahmin tested their strength against other
warriors, they fought in spiritual battles against other
priests and shamans. What does it prove to a strong
fighting man if he can cut down a child or rape a
defenceless woman? In pure contradiction, that display of
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STUDY AND WILL

The body will not change without actualised
application of the workouts, the mind will not change
without regular application of the intellect and the spirit
will not come forth without mastery of the flesh and the
barriers it puts up to acceptation of immortality (through
mortality). How then would the Praetorian approach this
mental, spiritual and physical application? He or she will
obviously be doing the workouts, they must form an
integral centre point around which the Centurion Method
cycles. Everything must be applied back to them, but
surrounding them, formed by them, the spokes of the
wheel/rota/tarot that is the CM must be the study,
meditation and application of the esoteric mysteries.
Central to the Centurion Method spiritual
process for the Praetorian is an understanding of
mythical literature, of how the myths of pre-historical,
ancient and recent man apply to us and for you to form
an opinion and a core baseline for your own mythology.
This can only be founded in a study of the myths of your
own people.
From here (the mythical launch pad) we would
expect the Praetorian to be studying Yoga, in all its
forms, regardless of origin, in the hope of understanding
a deeper and more yogic root within himself, not the
text or teacher. The Praetorian would be someone who
enjoyed meditation, saw it as a blessing and not a task,
someone who enjoyed music and the finer forms of the
art, not just what was popular for aesthetic or cultural
reasons, peer pressure and cult status etc.
The Praetorian would seek a foundation in
isolation, in the true experimental loneliness that
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masters the human, reduces him to the core and most
basic urges, a foundation that can only be found on the
mountainside, we stress this point until we are blue in the
face, only upon the mountain. All gods speak to their
children on the mountain. The Praetorian is a climber,
both physically and spiritually.
The Praetorian is obsessed with the mysteries of
the solar cults, of stripping everything back to the most
basic dualism and then the unity through opposites,
everything must be understood as either
lunar/feminine/dark/chthonic and
solar/masculine/light/astral, from here a composite
understanding of Lilith in the Qliphoth and Lucifer in the
Sephiroth can be achieved and true Kali/Siva loss of
ego/self in the unity of endless opposition be discovered.
We ramble because there is no way of explaining this in
other terms than those given. Opposition of positive and
negative causeth electrical charge, as Rice would say.
The Praetorian is a man after Nietzsches heart,
letting his cry be daily that I bring forth the Superman, he
is a man after Crowleys heart, his daily meditations being
that I become the Antichrist. Anything which helps ye
evolve, anything which tramples the former morals of the
Old Aeon, all these are to be celebrated by the Praetorian,
he who is beyond good and evil. Anything which is
accepted or regarded as standard behaviour by the human
herd is to be shunned and maligned as the bleating and
whinnying of sheep as they stumble about the blasted
heath, eating scraps of grass left by the shepherd. None of
this is worth your time, abandon it, the common goal, the
weakened status of achievement based in money and
wealth and status according to gains of intellect or social
standing. Cast it off
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THE RITUALS

As we have stated multiple times throughout this
book, the Praetorian grade is something you might
achieve with ease, but the Praetorian lifestyle is something
you may never aspire to, let alone even have any interest
in. If you are one of those people, skip this section, it will
have very little to offer you and you may find it
counterproductive.
As we have also stated since the beginning of this
book, and the maiden Centurion Method publications, the
Centurion Method is a magical process, an alteration to
the fundamental will of the practitioner, which then
cooperatively alters the body and mind and vice versa. This
is an exponential system, when the Will rises so will the
ability to workout and the mental capacity, then the
understanding of the method will increase, results will be
seen and this will result in more Will Power, and so on
and so on. This is how fighters and warriors are made,
think of it like a boxer who is given a series of easier
fights on the run up to the big time, he is tested, but not
properly, this gives him the air of being undefeated and
when he eventually tests his mettle against a genuine
equal he will have the added punch of his pride, self-
image and reservoir of will power from previous
victories. It is the same with the Centurion Method.
If on your path to Praetorian you were
constantly failing, constantly being defeated and
demoralised youd get there through little but sheer
determination, which is something in itself, but not very
useful. If on the other hand you were given weekly
failures with weekly victories, workouts you bested with
ease and workouts that chewed you up and spat you out,
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youd be full of grit, determination, the strength and
dignity that only comes from experiencing your abilities
tested and your best being bested.
One of the sure-fire ways to increase will power
is to consciously meditate upon it, set up an initiation of
sorts which will encourage a sudden spike in strength,
determination and dedication. Whether you want to view
this as a gift from the gods, a self-affirmation or a simple
unlocking of inner hypnotic faculties, the result is the
same, the terminology is insignificant. We have included
the introductory ritual in this Praetorian booklet, there is
a small corpus of similar rituals slowly growing but of
course they are secret and will only be obtainable by the
confirmed Praetorian who contacts us directly. For now,
if you were to perform this ritual once a month, on the
full or horned moon depending on your preference, you
would see a huge increase in inner and outer power. And
who doesnt want more power?
The inspiration for this ritual came to me whilst I
was studying the origins of the gammadion, or fylfot, or
as it is commonly known the swastika. As any idiot knows
this symbol has been used by almost every single culture
across the planet, and a simple search in a library or on
the internet will show you expressions of it in as wide and
varied sources as Russia, China, India, Australia, the
Americas and Africa, including most of the European,
Scandinavian and Celtic countries. Any use of the symbol
by political and historical groups has been because of its
inherent power atavistically, not because it specifically
represents a certain way of thinking or a certain outlook.
The swastika at its core represents the sun, but it is so
much more than that, it represents solar energy, which is
something much more esoteric and a lot deeper than just
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a sun disc. The swastika is a symbol of power, strength,
inspiration, electricity, the gods, godliness, inner spirit
and enlightenment, depending on the culture using it.
For the Hindus and Buddhists who use it in the heart of
various gods and bodhisattvas it represents the cycle of
incarnation and the physical itself, the Buddha or Rishi
wearing it in his heart symbolises his mastery over the
process. You can see why certain groups have been keen
to use it for its hypnotic and solar power over the
centuries.
When the swastika is facing left or spinning
anticlockwise, the energy is active in the destructive
sphere, this is holy war, or destruction for the sake of
burning up dross elements, the wars of Indra or Thor
against the elements of Chaos, wars that peel back the
layers of creation, a forest fire or a bolt of lightning that
causes a tree to crack or a mountain to split. The swastika
facing right, or spinning clockwise is the energy of
creation, the solar force which causes life, allows plants
to grow, flowers to bloom, this is honey and mead, and
milk turning and creating butter and cream, this is the
ladle churning the primordial milk of the Ur cow to
create life itself, a thickening process.
In playing with ideas of how to stand in the
swastika pose for the purpose of meditation and direction
of stored will power, I stumbled across several historical
examples where the swastika is imposed upon the body of
the meditator in the full lotus position. I was immediately
struck by the simplicity of the idea that the man or
woman sitting in the lotus formed a sort of swastika,
hands out, one facing up, one facing down, the head
turning to make the last spoke of the wheel. This is also
the position one finds the Baphomet or several images of
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Christ sitting in, one hand pointing to heaven, the other
pointing to hell, one hand pointing to creation, the other
to destruction, the perfect physical description of what
the swastika represents.
I have decided to represent these positions in the
following way for a man and a woman. Both male and
female sit fully naked in the half lotus, the man with his
right arm up and his left arm down, looking over his left
shoulder, this is the position of destruction, looking
towards the left hand path, the process of decay through
the inevitability of death and dissolution. The woman sits
with her right hand down and her left arm up, looking
over her right shoulder, this is the position of creation,
the right hand path, the process of building up, forcibly,
order and civilising powers. Whether you can do this with
a partner of the opposite sex is beside the point, it would
be highly beneficial to both of you but if you have to do it
alone that is absolutely fine.
In the positions of Order (woman) and Chaos
(man) contrary to the traditional Lunar and Solar phases
of the left and right hand path. I have chosen to do this
because in the Centurion Method we are fundamentally
trying to awake the power of destruction in the man, the
chaotic and supremely powerful urge toward pulling
down the world around him, to allow something new to
be created, this is the Will to Power, and thus should be
cruelly lunar and chthonic in its outlook. The woman on
the other hand is trying to awake the power of creation,
of activity and strength, she is a Spearwife, and thus must
begin to think and fight like a man, she must not be
insular, quiet, submissive or lunar anymore, she should
be manifesting the rigidity and order of the Solar Male,
hence the unorthodox swapthink of it like Tantra, Kali
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THE FAILING MANTRA

Early on in the Centurion Method history, when
the fundamentals hadnt yet been worked out, I
envisioned a series of lengthy weekend workouts
designed for Praetorian level candidates called Delorem
Pasio which roughly translates as Passionate Suffering or
Painful Passion. The Delorem was a 20-30 mile hike with
weight vests, equipment and outdoor sleeping gear,
aimed at an autumn or spring completion. Workouts
would be randomly interspersed throughout the first day
with little food and water available, then the group would
camp out for the night, sleeping outdoors and finishing
another long hike and series of workouts the next day.
The whole purpose of this weekend session was to push
Praetorians to their utmost limit, to destroy them, to
push them beyond comfort and out into the stratosphere
of pure suffering, and see how they cope. The point as we
have said before was not to succeed but to see how you
cope with failure.
The Delorem evolved as an idea into the
Praetorian book you read now. We had many more ideas
than just a long hike and a few workouts, and weve really
expanded and exaggerated the ideas from those original
bases.
These workouts are designed to make you suffer.
There isnt an easy one in here, nothing is scalable,
approachable, workable or allows you to cope for more
than a few moments. We dont want people who try to
cope, or try to find a way to stop hurting, we want people
who will keep moving even when it feels like theyre
dying and possibly even do die. Thats right, you might
die. Why are you here? Is this a game? Are we playing? Go
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back to the gym where it is safe and warm and every
danger has been removed for you, tied up, humanised,
castrated, like a little whipped dog. You are Man, you are
Human, you are the horrifying beast of prey that
Nietzsche so admired riding to battle on the Prussian
front, brimming with laughter and joy at the prospect of
death.
If in hungering for greatness, in desperately
seeking the divine whilst still dwelling in this mortal
frame of flesh and blood, whilst seeking the Holy Grail of
the Superman, you were to die, would that not be an
honourable death? Would that not be the kind of death a
Man seeks? A death in the service of the evolution of
man? Would that be so ignoble? We dont think so.
Of course we do appreciate that this is not the
calling of everyone who does the Centurion Method, and
whilst you might dominate 90% of the workouts in this
book, you might be the fittest, most sculpted and toned
poster boy or girl for the Method, you wont be a
Praetorian if you dont take the fundamental risks
involved with greatness. Even if this remains the calling
of only four or five people ever, we dont care, because
those four or five who master this process with us, will
die not as mere men, but as Superman. Able to look back
over your life, able to lie as an old man on your death bed,
or on the side of a mountain, you can look back and smile,
knowing that you saw your limits and you trampled them
like so much muck under the thunderous hooves of your
advance. Let nothing get in your way and you will ascend
to divinity as simply as the first ape stood up.
We knew we were going to try and replicate the
way sacrifice feels in a workout, and it isnt too far to say
that the references to this idea of ultimate sacrifice are
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what inspired the whole Praetorian book. The idea of a
warrior fighting for a cause that is certain to fail, but he
keeps on fighting, the Samurai who knows he is destined
to be the last man standing against an insurmountable
enemy, this is the beauty and tragedy of human life.
Aragorn and Theoden at Helms Deep
Ride out with me, ride out and meet themfor death
and glory.for Rohan for your people.
And the subsequent cry, that most beautiful of
mantras,
Fell deeds awake, now for wrath, now for ruin, and
the red dawn!
There is no hope of victory, only the certainty of
a heros death, only the grim determination to not die
with your back to the enemy, to not bring shame upon
the name of your house and your people, the War to the
Knife. This is the death that greeted the Spartans at
Thermopylae, the Knights protecting Constantinople, the
Praetorians at Rome when facing the Goths and indeed
that same battle promised to the Einherjar at Ragnarok,
certain death, certain to fall, no way of securing victory,
no retreat, no surrender.
Up until now we have only dealt with success,
your workouts have been tapered so you succeed, even if
you fail it has not been a glorious failure. But with the
Praetorian book, it will be. We will see how you fail, how
you deal with failure, your composure, your dignity, your
attitude when faced with an impossible task.
There are some workouts that require a pair or a
group, quite simply because the likelihood of death is
quite high, so to reduce that chance, take someone with
you, you will see what we mean. Develop a brotherhood, a
fellowship in the face of defeat through these workouts,
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you will fail, but you will fail together. The Praetorian
Guard was after all a Legion of elites that guarded Rome
and the Imperial palace even when the rest of Rome was
fleeing and everyone was being slaughtered. We are
reminded of the Legionnaire at Pompei who refused to
leave his post because he had not been given the order,
and stood exactly as he was supposed to, even as he was
being mummified in volcanic ash.
Hunger, cold, pain, torture, beatings,
humiliation, violence, suffering of the worst kind, when
do we stop? How do we stop? I dont know how to give in.
I cant stop. These should be the ways we approach
quitting. Can I quit? Can I offer up peace terms? The
workout is your enemy, the environment is your enemy,
you are dying, welcome to history, welcome to life.
The Praetorian is born here, all else fades into
the background, the spokes of the wheel become as blurs,
and all that can be seen is the hub, the centre of the
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INTRODUCTION

(This booklet is included for its historical worth and as a
piece of transition material for the CM. Some of the
subjects here touched upon for the first time were
expanded in detail with the much more in depth rethink
of CM doctrine that is Sigurd.)
Vir, Latin for power, strength, energy, masculine
force, the root of the words virtus where we derive the
modern virtue and the essence of manhood-virile and
virility. Similar by coincidence to the primal vowel, the Ur
of the rune poems, the vital wild energy of the aurochs,
that ancient beast of the herd, the atypical symbol of
power for the Northern European male who watched these
enormous wild oxen wander the plains of the Old World.
Ur is the rune of force, power and masculine effort.
Etymologically and esoterically analogous to the Vril of
Bulwer-Lytton and his ilk, the chi or qi of the Asian
mystics, the force as it is commonly called in popular 20
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century culture. Vril is the untameable but channelled
force of the concentrated will, psychic, kinetic, emotive
or otherwise, via the willing applicant.
Vril, Ur and Vir are the same primal driving
energy, the grrrrrr of the man who sees something he
wants, something he seeks to destroy, feed from or mate
with and knuckles down to either subjugate, cripple or
execute it. Vir is the will of man, it is the Will to Power, it
is whatever is deemed manly by the culture in question,
whatever that may be, simplistic, powerful, masculine.
This booklet is an exercise in expressing the
most simplistic aspects of this Vir, the lofty and moralistic
are discarded and only the core truth remains. The Vir is
the Roman legionnaire or the Spartan foot soldier, the
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Low Countries mercenary during the 30 years war, the
outlaw or the hired thug, he is not the philosopher or the
politician, he is the one who says with soft and dulcet
tones ours not to make reply, ours not to reason why, ours but
to do and die
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There is a concept, a fearful one in the eyes of
the ideologues who run this world, that there are signs of
the re-emergence of the virile tradition, warning tones,
premises and hints in the proto-cryptic words of fitness
groups, gangs and cults across the lands. We aim with this
booklet to add a single crack of the drum to that growing
clamour.
Do not waste your tears; I was not born to watch the
world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds
of Men.
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To paraphrase The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred
Lord Tennyson
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Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader rule book by Rick
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VIR CONCEPTS

The Vir is the way of the warrior, it is the way of
the Kshatriya taught from birth to be a noble fighter. Not
a learned tradition, not a concept handed down from
ruler to subject but a way of life taught from father to
son, master to student, inborn in the hands of the few to
the even fewer. The life of the warrior is one of death, one
of acceptance and meditation upon death. This tradition
then is one of violence, and the twin polarities of a true
acceptance of real life, i.e. creation and destruction, lust
and violence, sex and death.
First and foremost is the discipline of weapon
worship and collection. The hoarding of weapons is as old
as the human race; men like to be surrounded by
weapons, the weapons of fallen foes, the weapons which
have done great things. Even now sacred swords are used
to crown kings and queens in Europe, swords are used to
symbolically bestow power or prestige in arcane rites as
old as the nations in which they are entombed. Across the
world weapons are sacred, the Samurai and his katana,
the Ghurkha and his kukri, the Sikh and his dagger. Guns
have become sacred, symbols of authority or revolution,
the symbiosis of the AK47 with the idea of
internationalist revolt for example, or the symbol of the
tear gas gun in the hands of the booted riot cop and all its
opposing messages. Weapons are men, and men are
mankind. We repeat again, war is to man, what motherhood
is to woman, as the woman cradles and raises her infants
and feeds them tenderly with warmth and love, so the
man cradles and cleans his weapons and keeps them
sharp and deadly. The spirit of the weapon, its soul, its
heart, are as important as its ability to kill, it is just a
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lump of metal or wood when lying on the cold hard
ground, but in the hands of its trained owner it is a
machine of violence and death. The weapon in the hands
of a man suddenly becomes the instrument of the wrath
of the gods, every sword, every dagger, every gun is then
Mjolnir in the hands of Thor, divine, intrinsic, the
embodied wrath of the virile god-man who dares to walk
the earth.
Worship of the sword, the knife, and the gun.
The masculine tradition is useless if not
expressed in unity and cohesion with that of other men.
The Lone Wolf who acts alone, kills alone and dies alone is
a very specific and highly immortalised tradition, it is one
of martyrdom and sacrifice, it is not the way of all men.
The tradition of brotherhood then is the next key factor.
To have brothers around you, literal and
otherwise, men who have your back, and when the
drumbeat begins to thrum, will stand side by side with
you, heel to heel, shield tip to shield tip, shoulder to
shoulder, to victory or death, these are core to the Vir
man. A man without a friend has his back forever
exposed, and a man with many enemies has many
exposed points which even one trusted comrade would be
able to protect. This cannot be understated.
Worship of the brother, the comrade, the blood oath.
A man who cannot express himself through
violence is a dead man. A man who when the bullets or
the fists begin to fly finds himself with moist knickers or
a quivering leg will not survive long in a non-Western
country or the annals of history. Cowardice is universally
maligned by all men, and even the hardest or bitter
sworn enemies will find a common tongue in their hatred
for a coward who has wronged their foe.
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Violence is the key to manhood, a man who
cannot do violence, either to himself, his comrades or his
enemies is a dead man. Practice violence then, harm
yourself, experience pain, practice the traditions of the
day, learn to hunt, to kill, to maim and to dominate in
battle. If the laws of the land forbid it, learn what you can
within the confines of the law, fight your brothers in the
streets of your native lands, become hard, Nietzsche says
again become hard in all ways.
Worship of hardness in any form, emotional, physical,
spiritual.
Danger is the watchword of the true man, when
something is dangerous, when he is warned that there is
danger in something, he yearns for it. When two paths
are opened to him and one is the safe way, the easy way,
the smooth way, he maligns it, he despises it as
something which will make him soft and feminine. Nay,
he seeks the hard way, the dangerous route, the path up
the mountain that risks his certain death, for it is better
to die than to be found weak.
To be thought of as dangerous, a risk taker, a
man of virility, these are what drive a man to hunger for
greatness, yet these traits are not attractive to a woman,
they are commendable only in the company of other men,
and then become attractive to a woman. A woman loves
the man other men admire, those men who take risks and
are seen as the Romulus, the Sigurds, the Beowulfs of the
modern era.
Danger, risk, pain, suffering, all of these make ye hard.
To those who came before us the words of the
rite of tradition, the honour of the dead, in whom we
found life, those who have gone to the mud and are
awaiting us in the halls of our fathers. To these men we
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offer eternal thanks and fealty, they are the men in whom
nothing can be found wanting, for they did all, said all,
lived all, and died and have gone back to the mud. No ill
word shall be spoken of them, for they are dead, and the
earth has swallowed them back into her caverns.
We honour them in our rituals, we malign the
lack of their traits in ourselves, we read the myths, the
legends the histories of our peoples wherever they may
be and we long to be remembered as those men are
remembered.
We light fires each winter in their name, on the
Night of the Dead, when the veils are thinnest and we can
remember our fathers in song and in prayer, and feel their
blood pumping through our veins.
The cult of the ancestor, the worship of the ancestor.
O my brothers, your nobility should not look
backward but ahead .
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We honour our ancestors but as
the carriers of the heroic Vir, we do not rest in the
assumption that we are the best of them that has yet
walked the earth, we accept that the opposite is probably
true. This is the Age of the Last Man, of the men who have
no chests, who whimper, who are whiners, whingers and
cowards. There is more of the wet panted woman to
modern men than the frightening monstrosities that
carved out the history of this Old World. The men of
modernity are men of technology, soft handed,
manicured, sculpted like photographs from pornographic
magazines and capitalist propaganda, they are not men,
and from them the ascent of man shall not come.
To the Vir then, the men of tradition, the idea of
behaving or aping their ways is a travesty, the greatest

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blasphemy, to be concerned with what they concern
themselves with, a division, a heresy, an error of the
worst kind. Truly this is the transmutation of Nietzsches
moral code, when the thing that is most despicable in our
eyes is the accepted and sought after norm of society.
We hunger for the opposite, to pass the blood of
kings and warriors down to our daughters and sons, to
give virile and strong genes to our children, genes which
have been tested and not found wanting. To keep yourself
at the highest levels of fitness, to lift heavy, run fast,
jump high, crawl and shout, and fight and live, these are
not obligations to the ancestor, but to the descendant, to
the infant who will one day look back and say that was my
father, and I am of my fathers line.
I go to my fathers... in whose mighty company... I
shall not now feel ashamed.
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The woman is a creature of beauty and strength,
a twin soul in whom we find a mate for life, as Plato put
it, we are but one half of a creature which once had four
legs, four arms and two heads and is now forever cursed
to wander the earth looking for its other half. The woman
is our twin, everything not expressed in us is expressed in
her. Even when she is strong, muscular, violent and
potentially deadly, she expresses these urges, these traits
as the mother bear or the tigress, they are feminine and
beguiling, attractive and evidence of a strong personality,
strong genes, strength. The man of Vir seeks out his mate
in strength, as a woman he can copulate with and breed
with, not just for his enjoyment but as a continuation of
his line, of everything spoken of thus far. In truth, the
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womb, the protecting of that womb, the seeding of it and
the protecting and feeding of the young it produces is
actually the highest aim of the human male. Whatever
other lofty introspections or worships he may endure,
whatever other virtues or morals he lives and dies for,
this is the highest form of worship, that a woman will
receive his seed and raise his young.
The act of sexual union is therefore a religious
act, a performance of the most ancient form of worship, it
is the union of the divine male and the divine female,
forever brand new, forever the myth of the most ancient
gods of fertility, lying in the field, spilling seed so that the
crops might grow.
Have sex, willingly and passionately, that children
might call you father.
Testosterone, the chemical physical equivalent of
the Vir, the invisible power that makes the man. There is
a war against testosterone, a war that is being won with
nutritionally poor food, the banning of anything
historically seen as bad for you (i.e. masculine) and
anything which causes men to be aggressive.
The key entheogens which every man must have
a healthy respectful relationship with are tobacco and
alcohol. These twin deities of the masculine heritage have
been with us for millennia, man has been drinking and
smoking dried herbs since his infancy, whether that be
the nicotine in tobacco, nightshade or other
hallucinogenic plants, or the alcohol in ale, whisky, grog
or mead, he has had a life and death relationship with
them.
To drink and smoke go hand in hand with
warfare. The soldier on the front line who feels he has no
link with the past, with home, without hope of survival,
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he smokes a cigar, he drinks whisky from a hip flask and
he has Vir, he does not care, he is comforted, accepting of
the task ahead, even if that task is nought but a noble
death.
Dutch courage, the wee dram, the drop of brandy
to make you well on a cold winters night, the drop of ale
and the smoke of the cigar given to the Devil at the
crossroads, these are all sourced in Vir, in manhood, in
masculinity. To abandon them is folly, to dabble in them
to the point of illness, of liver failure and lung cancer,
this is stupidity, the warrior knows restraint and he
enjoys the gift of life with a disciplined abandon.
Drink, smoke, have sex, lift heavy things, these are Vir.
The forms of worship which we have described above, the
way in which a man of the Vir shows himself to be a man
are unspoken, unheralded, unheeded, but they are noted.
The man of Vir speaks calmly, is not agitated, needlessly
aggressive or dominant, he is a man of discipline and
strength and power. All of the above mentioned
disciplines will sculpt the raw material of the man of
power into the man of Vir; it is not enough to be
beautiful, to be strong and to be violent, the man must be
a man
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.
What follows hereon is a set of nine disciplines
which will, if entered into with the right attitude,
discipline the mind, body and spirit to function as a unit
and as a man of Vir. Think of these exercises as workouts,
ways to practice in the privacy of meditations or
comradely discussions, how to be a man of action in the
understanding of your culture and tradition.

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Many of these concepts are elaborated upon in the
Cultus Sol Invictus booklet.
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I. Camaraderie: A Fraternity of Danger

A brother is another human being whom you
would die for or avenge if they were harmed (the same is
true of martial sororities but there are much fewer
examples of this historically). The brother is intrinsic to
manhood, and masculine cultures across the world have
regarded the secrecy, relationship and love between
brothers as highly (if not more so) than blood
relationships (father, brother, son etc.) and the
husband/wife relationship. A blood brother is someone
who you have chosen to take on your responsibilities
when you die and vice versa, it is akin to choosing your
representative in this life for after your death. The
brother is a man not chosen lightly, it is the same as
choosing a mate, indeed a man with many friends has
always been thought of as something of a whore, and he
who has many he calls brother is thought of as being
weak willed and promiscuous with his affections, i.e. not
to be trusted. Better to have no brothers than several who
are brother in name but not in action.
Brotherhood is sealed by oath, an oath of blood,
before the gods of our tradition, with the weapons of
worship present, knife, gun and sword, blood drawn and
mingled and then shared in a draught of alcohol. This is
as old as the oldest expressions of religion
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.
To be a brother is an infinite plethora of duties,
but suffice to say it is encompassed by one concept,
protecting and standing by the other man even when he is
wrong. This surely expresses the depth of the fidelity

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The 4,000 year old Epic of Gilgamesh contains an example
of a blood brotherhood between Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
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between two men, even when he has committed some
crime, something which everyone clamours to destroy
him for, you still defend him. That is brotherhood.

Exercise

Do something dangerous with someone you
trust, a brother or friend, a family member. Go out and
climb something, require each others assistance, trust
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II. Duty: The Man and His Castle

The Patriarch; the father in his house, the ruler
of a nation, the farmer in his field, the commander of a
squadron, what does it mean to be one of these? What
does it mean to have a duty toward a set of people, a
child, a partner, a brother, a father? Love does not come
into it; passion does not come into it. Duty is cold and
hard, like the steel which often metes out the justice of a
failed task.
Duty is defined by the man who sees the bigger
picture within his own household, when he protects his
children and his loved ones from all harm, but knows
when the firm hand of discipline is needed to keep them
in line, for their own good. This is the strong leader who
disciplines his own people that they may be virile and
hard and cruel when the time comes and when it is most
needed.
Duty is the Coriolanus of Shakespeares prose,
who seeing the weakness and limp wristed crippled
nature of his own people went out and sided with their
sworn enemies to bring justice and judgement upon
them. Moved to violence against his own city, it was only
the words of his patriotic mother, who saw the even
bigger picture and reminded him of his duty (that same
duty he believed he was fighting for) and turned him back
to his fathers people.
Duty is the encouragement, demanding and
forceful petitioning of your peers, those men around you
to behave like men, to behave decently and with rigorous
virtue when dealing with comrades, loved ones and
enemies. Duty is expected, even the most hardened
enemy of Rome knew what to expect when he faced a
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Roman legionnaire, because the reputation of the fervent
obsession with duty preceded the onslaught of the legions
themselves.
Live by example to those around you, be hard
and flinty, liable to shatter before you bend, move not
like water but like the mountain.

Exercise

Find someone whom you disagree with, someone
whom you potentially despise, and talk to them about
duty and what it means to serve the community. In seeing
how your opposite behaves, what they believe duty is,
how little it might mean to them or indeed how much it
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III. Persistence: When Do We Quit?

What does it mean to persist? Pain, suffering,
difficulty, these things arent nice, they hurt, but there is
something pure and profound about seeing someone
endure and continue on. How does someone survive
torture? It is not avoiding something, we are not hiding
from something, we face it, we knuckle down and we
endure.
What then is persistence? An exercise of raw will
power toward a specific goal, it could be said that it is the
raising of a barrier between yourself and a stimulus or
difficulty. To raise a barrier of refusal between yourself
and the object of your attention, I will not stop, I will not
give up, I will not yield. Once skill, endurance, agility etc.
are all used up, there is only pure will power,
unadulterated, essentially unstoppable.
What does it mean to quit? To quit during a
workout or discipline you have set yourself is the same as
quitting during any difficulty. You may as well just lie
down and die. Quitting is certain death, at some point or
another you will face something you dont like,
something you dont want to do, and how youve
approached these situations in the past will reflect on the
future.
As one Berserker said small actions based on fear
will lead to cowardice. The little things you do based on
anxiety and fear of rebuke will eventually mount up
inside you and render you incapable of action one way or
the other. Learning when to stand up and when to retire
is an enormous part of what it means to be a fighter;
when to block the punches coming at your face and when
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to just take them on the chin, and of course, when to
open up and start punching back.
Quitting during a workout is a miniature version
of death, it is an orgasm of urge ending in an ejaculation,
a finishing, a finality, which is a form of death. To die is to
fail, it is to move on from one sphere of existence and
allow another to begin, and if you do this willingly, and
practice doing it regularly, you are effectively telling
yourself it is better to commit suicide when the going
gets tough rather than knuckle down and keep fighting.
All the clichs are true, pain is but a moment, failure lasts
a lifetime.

Exercise

As an exercise of pure will, find something very
heavy and carry it as long as possible, see how much pain
you can go through, cry, whimper, scream, roar, just see
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IV. Integrity: The Virtue of Doing What You Say

This one is very, very simple. Do you do what you
say?
Its as easy as that. When you say youll do
something, do you do it? That is the definition of
integrity, reliability, truth, honour, dependability. What
could be more needed between warrior brethren who are
potentially in a life or death situation? Did you say youd
go and get ammo and bring it back to the frontline? Then
why didnt you?
Again these tiny actions in everyday life manifest
in the bigger picture, this honour, integrity, dignity, is
something that cuts to the core of what it means to be of
the nobility, someone who keeps the old ways contrary to
the modern miasma. You should be held accountable
every time you say youll do something and forget to do
it, which is just another way of saying you couldnt be
bothered. Respect and dignitas go hand in hand, if you
are a man of your word, someone who keeps to his oaths
then you will be respected and vice versa.
Putting it bluntly, you should be harmed if you
do not.
The ancient Indo-Europeans of the Fertile
Crescent believed lying to be one of the worst crimes,
more so than many of the others such as stealing,
murder, rebellion etc. because lying was a way of creating
false realities. When the word is god and the gods are
made in stories and words, to willingly lie and tell lies to
cause others suffering suddenly becomes the worst kind
of blasphemy.


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Exercise

Set yourself a task or series of tasks, set a
deadline and stick to it, align your honour with the idea
of completing these tasks.




























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V. Reliability: The Virtue of Arriving When You Say

The complexities of the virtue of reliability are
hard to comprehend and explain without crossing over
into the realms of integrity. However, consistency and
punctuality is the key here; but this is not necessarily to
do with timing alone.
Arriving when you say means doing what you
said you would do when you said you would do it.
A military man or a person in a position of
responsibility over the lives of others (emergency
services etc.) will best understand this and illustrate the
concept. Regardless of whether you do a job excellently,
when you do it is more important. If you were required to
bring ammunition from the rear line to the forward
position for your comrades during a fire fight and you
brought the cases forward in excellent condition, with no
damage or spillage etc. but you got it to them fifteen
minutes late, they would all be dead. If you performed a
lifesaving manoeuvre on a man dying from a heart attack
in the street, but your ambulance arrived fifteen minutes
late, the man would already be dead. If you expertly
entered a burning building and rescued the little girl
from her crib and handed her to her mother, but you
arrived fifteen minutes late, you would be handing her a
shrivelled corpse.
These are extreme examples, and contrary to
how they appear, they have little to do with timing. The
key is the ability and dedication of the individual to arrive
when they said they would. Not dawdling, not
procrastinating, not finding excuses to put in only 95%
effort. When you strip any activity back to its core
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fundamentals, the timing with which you execute it is
absolutely essential.
If youre in a fist fight and you just arent
committed, or a man enters your home with ill intent and
you just arent signed up to the conflict, not throwing
punches when you should or dominating the situation,
you will lose, and you could (and probably should) die.
Executing a desire with forceful intent, on time and with
correct dedication is hugely important to the
warrior/soldier, it should be equally important to you.
This applies to sex, violence, love, fatherhood,
marriage, and millions of other facets in the life of the
man of tradition. Taking ten hours to reach orgasm, or
only taking ten seconds will disappoint a woman equally
and reduce you in her estimations, sex is a strange
mingling of extreme passion and pleasure mixed with a
healthy understanding of timing and reliability. It is a
good example of the understanding between two people
about how something like consistency and durability
works between the two opposing/unified elements.
Other aspects express the notion of refusing to
be a meek or half-man, being stalwart and determined to
complete a project or an oath regardless of how difficult
or annoying it may be. Again we refer to the idea of the
super-soldier, who doesnt see activities as impossible
only seeing degrees of difficulty and sacrifice required for
completion. As they say the only sin for the warrior, is
failure.

Exercise

Find something youre weak at, something you
dont like, a physical exercise or a spiritual endeavour,
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something youre known for being flaky on and dominate
it. Proceed with discipline, punctuality and determination
and finish it.






























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VI. Heroism: Disregard for Life

Heroism; another hugely ambiguous concept
which we will struggle to define but which rests at the
centre of the understanding of the word warrior.
One of the many concerns morally minded
people have with the Iron Law, the Might is Right writings
and a lot of Nietzsches (and therefore the Centurion
Method) is that the call for a rethinking of good and evil,
a transvaluation of values, comes with the fear that were
endorsing rape, child abuse, tyranny, genocide, murder
and cruelty towards the weak etc. On the contrary as we
have said many times, the domination of the strong over
the weak is not some cruel BDSM style control or
dominance as the modern internationalists would have us
believe. Natural domination is exerted through strength
manifested purely against strength. A warrior who seeks
to better himself (iron sharpens iron) will only truly test
himself against another warrior. Of what concern is it to
the hero if he is able to slaughter women and children?
These are the concerns of the brutal despot who we seek
to depose. These are the chthonic powers, the serpentine
and nocturnal deities the ancient Indo-Europeans
depicted as being colossal and impossible to comprehend.
We do not deny that these forces exist and indeed are
sometimes necessary to subjugate an enemy, but we do
not endorse them as things you should be indulging in.
Anyone who hears the doctrine of might is right
or reads Nietzsche and thinks oh right I can go and rape
someone and its not morally wrong is just a fucking
idiot and a closet psychopath. The doctrine of might is
right should be heard by the strong and encourage them
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to develop their own moral code of right and wrong for
themselves. This is what the hero does.
The Indo-European idea of the hero was a man or
woman with martial or spiritual skill who went against all
the odds, against all the codes and rules of the day
(physical or otherwise) and did something incredible,
usually (and specifically) for his tribe or nation. When
you say the word hero, what images come to mind?
Hercules, Thor, Romulus, King Arthur, Robin Hood,
Cuchulain, Finn McCool? These are the men who come to
my mind, huge, imposing characters who fought for their
own moral code of honour, had their own internal laws
and didnt play by the rules of the day but indulged in the
idea of a god-man and sacrificed their entire existence to
become heroes. Indeed, for nearly all of the characters
mentioned, the idea of leaving a heroic name was more
important than their mere survival. Each of them
expressed might is right in their own way and described
some of the beauty of the interpretation of the reality of
morals.
Being a hero in this day and age requires three
instinctive codes which each man will know in his heart
are true, regardless of his calling or ability.

Being a hero to wife and child being a despot to your
wife and child, punishing them too severely, being a cruel
dictator or a miser will result in your potential
abandonment or replacement. Indeed the position of
father in the household is perfectly linked to the idea of a
true monarch or leader, the father does not exact
judgement with cruelty but with restraint and love. His
hand is iron but his heart is warm.
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Being a hero to nobility and name your family, your
name, your heritage, these things are all passed down to
you and perhaps the best understanding of this is in the
Old Testament understanding of sin. Not meted out by
some abstract deity, but by the very tangible pastoral war
god of the Hebrews (YHWH), visiting sin to the childrens
children and visiting righteousness to the tenth
generation has nothing to do with judgement day, it is
about leaving a heroic name. Meditate upon this.

Being a hero to family and tribe sacrifice for the
family, sacrifice for the name, these are heroic
endeavours, but far and above these is the sacrifice the
everyday man makes for the name and health of his tribe,
the fundamental factor of his most ancient existence.
This may sound contradictory when interpreted by might
is right philosophy, but we ask you to think on it, long and
hard, the truth will reveal itself.

Exercise

Practice expressing your strength through
assisting those in your community. If you grow vegetables
or have a specific skill which allows you to help those
around you, do so. Charity is not some bizarre political
scheme meted out by the government as a socialist
endeavour, it is something the strong and secure do to
assist and protect the beaten down elements in our
society. Might is right is not expressed by treading on
those beneath you, that is tyranny. Do something for
someone within your tribe even when you dont want to
and when it is difficult for you to go through with or has
no immediate benefit to you.
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VII. Respect: Who Says What?

Respect is a word thrown around with all too
much abandon these days, invoked by inner city gangs of
youths to describe their internal ideas of name, honour
and retribution against minor infractions toward their
reputation or turf. Respect as a spiritual concept however
goes infinitely deeper than the mere idea of not letting
someone speak ill of you or down to you behind your
back. Disrespect is a spiritual infringement upon your
being. In the minds of the ancient Indo-Europeans,
specifically those around the fertile territories of the near
east (Iraq/Iran/Pakistan/India/Turkey/Caucasus range)
the idea of being disrespected or slandered was a form of
violence upon the person being spoken about. Gossip and
chatter about friends or foes behind their back was
regarded as effeminate and cowardly, and any rumour
about someone was supposed to be confronted face to
face, as it still is to this day in those countries.
Martial and militaristic nations (such as those
around the Caucasus Mountains for example) regard
disrespect as a heinous crime punishable by death and
will seek out blood revenge and take a blood feud
between families to an almost pathological conclusion of
tit for tat murders running down whole generations. This
is rooted in the previous concept of being a hero, your
name as something eternal which needs to be
remembered, any crime against that name being a crime
against your person which cannot be undone and is
therefore worse than any physical wound. It therefore
becomes clear that to die in retaining a good name is
better than to live and not care if someone makes up lies
about you and slanders you.
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On the flip side, the respect earned by a good
name through noble actions and heroism (in home,
community and battle against exterior influences) would
last a lifetime and be passed onto descendants (as
previously mentioned). Respect is earned through correct
and noble action, not mere chatter.
The only way to truly gain the respect of friend
and foe is to steadfastly stand by what and who you claim
to be and those beside and around you. Do not be like the
water, soft and pliable one minute and hard the next, be
like the mountain, immovable when you have solidified a
position, more likely to crack and to shatter from impacts
than to bend or twist out of shape. Men without chests,
men with weak backs, men with bendy countenances,
these are the outward signs of the Kali Yuga.
Behave as would befit a Son of God, of the living nuclear
sun which casts all shadow from its presence when it
shines during the heat of the day. Your speech, virtus and
virility should be as an atomic bomb in the presence of
the weak and the strong. Changing not for any opponent,
as the alpha wolf behaves towards his own pack, as cruel
to the wayward omega or beta as he is to the deer he
brings down in the forest, speedy, violent, sharp, deadly.
Only towards women, children and animals are we gentle.

Exercise

Be silent in the face of chit chat or ill talk of
others, even against your enemies. Practice respect for
even the most appalling of opponents. Save your violence
and aggression for actual combat, and if you must act, act.
Learn to respect and you will be respected.

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VIII. Fidelity: Til Death Do Us Part

Loyalty, honour, faithfulness, devotion,
allegiance; these are words bandied around by male
groups, both historical and those in resurgence but to
actually express and experience these emotions, this
virtus is an entirely different thing. Having a friend youve
known for decades, someone you love, someone you call
brother, a relationship built on trust. Could you sleep
with his girlfriend? Sleep with his wife? At what point
does what you want overrule what you need. The childish
maxim of bros before hos is a seldom observed rule
among the foolish male gangs of the modern era. The Age
of Fools demands that brothers betray each other,
everyone finds his opponent in himself and the world
around him and discovers that his lusts and his desires
often overcome what he claims to believe/uphold.
The truest experience of this fidelity is to stand
by someone even when they have done wrong or have
wronged you. To stand alongside someone you made a
pact with even when it causes you pain or discomfort.
This is the path of the warrior, the man who stands by the
orders of his superior officer even though he knows it
means certain death; ironically this is what most men
desire, to follow someone into battle and go toe to toe
with enemies even when you know theyve done wrong
and your cause will fail.
There is no real way to describe thisit must be
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Exercise

Set a goal with a partner, and achieve that goal
as a partnership no matter what. You set the time, you set
the parameters, but achieve that goal. Learn from each
other in how you assist and detract from each other
during the process. It could be a ten minute exercise or it
could be a lifetime oath between brothers or husband and
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IX. Hatred: My Enemys Enemy Is My Enemy

The childishness of modern politics reins
everything back to dualism; when the world has to be
divided between two warring political parties; democracy
and communism or communism and fascism, left and
right, good and evil, light and dark. The truth as we so
clearly know it is much more colourful.
The endless spectrum of thought and experience
allows for an infinite pantheon of ideas, and to reduce
yourself to the parameters of another mans thoughts
leaves you nothing more than his slave, a slave to his
passions and to his limited successes or his countless
failures. You align yourself with other men, but you are
not the same as them, you stand beside them or against
them, but you are not one part of a faceless whole. You
are a cog in the workings of an enormous beast, whatever
your race, your nation, your tribe, your community, your
family, your household or your husband/wife
relationship. You are grouped in an endless web (Wyrd)
of connections with millions of other humans, but your
true web exists only in the lives of a few hundred, and
your interaction which alters the destiny and fate of
those you stand beside or against.
Passionate defence of something you hold dear
or aggression towards something you hate are in effect
the same thing, raw passion is raw passion, be it the
boundless love of a father for his child or the boundless
hate of a man for his mortal enemy. True passion is a
bond which cannot be broken, the love between two
people which is beyond words or the mere severance of
disappointed action, or the hatred between two enemies
who have a blood oath to spend their energies in the
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destruction of the other. This kind of hatred is more like
love than the childish dislike which modernity calls
hatred. This is not the hatred of the two people who dont
share a political opinion, like the faux aggression
displayed by rival politicians in the houses of parliament
or the senate. True hatred is an almost filial and fraternal
violence which is housed in a mutually respectful but
eternally malignant warfare, the two samurai who by fate
have come to be on opposite sides in battle, but are sworn
brothers, who stand by their oath but through duty must
destroy one another. True hatred is not destructive, but
creative, it is an immortal position. It is Gilgamesh facing
Enkidu in mortal combat, where one is the pure equal of
the other, their combat shaking mountains to their
foundation.
In such combat, such hatred, there is no peace,
no respite, no time for quiet or understanding, only war
and death and the ceaseless hunting of the foe. The
hunter and the hunted, constantly switching between
adoration and respect and a violence unquenchable and
unstoppable. The warfare between Coriolanus and the
Volskis
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is again a good example, for decades Coriolanus
wars against his mortal enemies, taking the combat to
their heartlands year after year, taking wounds and scars
all over his tortured body in the name of Romes glory
and expansion. Only when he is betrayed by Rome and
her squabbling politicians does he turn to his mortal foe
and become fraternally entwined with their leaders and
their cause, taking the war back to Rome, against his own
people. Finally it is only when he is moved to guilt and the
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on his lifelong foes and dies in combat against them; a
true kshatriyas death.
Your enemys enemy is not your ally, the world is
not black and white, even your own kin could be enemies
given the right circumstances, only those with a blood
oath loyalty to the same goal as you are to be called allies
and even those alliances are tenuous and fleeting. Breath
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INITIATION

The creation of a warrior is not as simple as
making someone fit, making them reasonably healthy,
encouraging their masculinity and making them
physically able to fight with the right tools and skills to
kill their opponent. A warrior is not created, he is born,
he rises through the ranks like a bolt of lightning, he does
not meekly acquiesce to a quiet life of solitude and
meagreness, he finds himself driven to succeed, he is
plagued and haunted with an idea, an idea he cannot
express, and one he finds lacking in the modern Orders
Militant of the nations in which we live.
A warrior is a creation of the mind first, as we
have stressed over and over and over again, if the mind is
faulty, corrupt, inactive or sporadic in its emotive and
expressive qualities, the warrior will be equally
dysfunctional, if not more so. Someone who suffers from
mental illness will struggle with self-discipline, will
struggle with finding that untameable inner core of
hatred and rage which fuels the truly devout soldier.
The Centurion Method is not for everyone, we do
not want to make people fit, healthy and sculpted, we want
to make warriors. We take the fleshy pile of blubber, the
scrawny runt, and we ask him to leave his carcass at the
door, and only allow the truth to step over the threshold.
So many lies in this world, we want the true men, those
men who have at least shown the inborn willingness to
overcome themselves.
This Vir is, in essence, a sect of monastic
proportions; it is not a lifting program or a form of
workout which will make you stronger, harder, leaner,
and more toned, those things are barbarisms, archaisms,
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relics of the 20
th
century paradigm. Weve moved on from
there.
We invoke the monastic warrior order and all it
entails, every crudity, every simplistic expression of the
term, we demand fealty from anyone who enters this
doorway, everyone else can keep doing whatever it is
they do, and remain the person they are.
The first step of our expression of the monastic
warrior is the meditation upon death, violence,
dismemberment, the violent death at the hands of a
ferocious enemy. This is one of the earliest stages of
enlightenment in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, to
meditate upon drowning, strangling, disembowelment,
beheading, torture, rape, to live these moments, to
experience the agony and the terror and the pain of
having your organs pulled from your body, a knife enter
your bowels, a bullet detonate inside your cranium. Of
course, being the Centurion Method we would also
encourage you to meditate on the polar spectrum,
visualise stabbing someone, beheading someone, kneeling
down your enemies and shooting them in the back of the
head, this is hardening, this is what Nietzsche spoke of as
the precious intonation become hard
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The second step is to become expectant of a
personal involvement in the religious and cultural
observance of your nationality or tribe. We do not want
isolated and confused individuals who have no roots in
their own personality through their own ancestors. It
would be repugnant to us for a Chinese Centurion Method
practitioner to offer sacrifice to Mars and shed blood in
the name of Rome, a son of Khitai should be offering

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sacrifice to the mythical heroes of the Three Kingdoms
period and shedding blood in the name of Wei or Shu. The
same is true of any responsible tradition. The energy
behind the mask, yes, the mask itself with all its cultural
and national expressions rooted in the Tibetan, Chinese,
Indian or Japanese nuance, no! Modernity seeks everyone
to be able to express the national and culturally distinct
elements of everyone elses culture; absurd. By doing so
the internationalism seeks to take the bedrock of tradition
out from underneath every stalwart and solid cultural
expression in the world, reducing everything to a grey
morass, all the easier to manipulate according to their
aims and to ultimately inflate with the horror of free
trade; it is all about control.
Your expression of yourself, which is extremely
personal (how could it not be), has to be rooted in who you
are. As the Oracle said know thyself
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. This is the maxim
launched down through the ages; that you experience the
world around you and assimilate every experience into
the gnosis which you have been given by your ancestors.
The phenomena which you observe and the way in which
you observe them are intrinsically linked to your cultural
past and the environment in which you were raised.
There is an element of nature and an element of nurture to
cultural expression of the divine and it is extremely
important that you understand where you fit into all of
this.
Whether youre a Germanic Heathen, a Celtic
Pagan, a Satanist, Atheist, Hindu, Muslim, Catholic or
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natural, effortless and intrinsic to whom you and your
people are.
Third is the furtherance of a religious and
spiritual element to the hoarding of weaponry. It is one
thing to have a knife you know will cut cord, shave bark,
slice ligament and skin a rabbit, it is another to have a
sacred weapon which you only draw out to taste blood, a
weapon with a name, a weapon with a soul which keens
and hungers to taste the sweat of your hand and the
adrenaline of your desperation.
Anyone remotely interested in the way in which
modern weaponry and the superstitions of a pagan
culture can intermesh violently and effectively need only
look to the historical wars of countries like Liberia, the
Congo and Haiti. Where paganism and a superstition
focused on survival merges with the local traditions of
voodoo and Catholicism the result is a frightening array
of costume, danger worship and above all, weapon
fetishism. The weapons of the Liberians specifically, in an
understanding of the peasant actions during the civil war,
leap out as being instruments of specific deities and
spirits. If a man burst out of cover spraying bullets into
the air dressed in fatigues and boots and a bandana he
would just be shot at and killed, but in Liberia if a man
burst from cover spraying bullets into the air wearing a
womans dress, with face paint on and his gun adorned
with bones and fetish charms, he was likely to at least
give the opposition pause to consider which spirit he was
invoking before they started firing back.
To ignore or debase traditions such as these is
foolish; hoard your weapons, and worship them as you do
your hands and feet.
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Fourthly we have the true understanding of any
form of occult or mental power, whether it is spiritual or
genuinely physical in approach. That truth is of course
the creation and cultivation of spiritual weapons and
armour. It is all well and good to be able to fire a gun
straight, fire it under pressure, and even to fire it under
pressure whilst your friends are dying around you, it is
entirely another thing to see spiritual symbol and omen
in the actions of your friends and enemies as they fight
and die. This is the example of the Christian nut shown in
all modern war films that is looked upon as a bit of a kook
by all the other troopers but has some kind of bizarre
skill as either a sniper or a scout. He has guts or gut
feelings and is able to feel if something is right or wrong,
he then proceeds to mutter scripture or prayers as he
crawls through the undergrowth and goes to ply his
murderous trade. He is the Native American in Predator
who smells the alien before anyone can see it and senses
that something is wrong, and when he eventually comes
to die, discards his weapons and approaches death armed
only with a machete, after ritualistically cutting himself
with it of course.
Spiritual and occult tradition should only serve
to make you a better fighter, any understanding of power
outside the military or martial ability is useless. Who gives
a fuck if you know all the rune poems and can recite
them, who gives a shit if you know all of the Quran in
Arabic and can sing it from start to finish in 16 hours?
Those things only matter if they attract a meditative
state, a state from which you can find the peace of mind
and peace of spirit to commit atrocities and place them at
the foot of your chosen deity. Prayer, ritual, ceremony,
these serve only to make us better warriors.
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Fifth is the tradition of embodying the
archetype, something spoken of at length by Paul in his
Operation Werewolf transmissions. The archetype of the
hero, whether invented by yourself or whether an ancient
tradition handed down to you by your culture is a highly
personal role. If you have created a mask for yourself, one
which you seek to wear, in daily life, in battle, in a crude
bar fight or full scale siege level urban warfare, you must
utterly embody the archetype for it to fit. This is the
Spartan warrior bands who believed themselves to be
descended from Hercules himself, the Berserkers of
Nordic tradition who believed themselves to be
descended from Thor and Odin, who wore the skins of the
wolf in the full belief that it made them wolf like. The Picts
and the Scots who ritualistically tattooed themselves with
the symbols of power animals to steal some of that power
and invoke it in their flesh, a boar for their heads, a stag
for their thighs, a bear for their forearms, all invoked
symbols, all masks.
Developing a set of rituals, a set of tools (mental
or physical) with which you adorn yourself and your
surroundings each time you work out or engage in
discussion, these eventually become you. This is a method
of primitive neural reprogramming, and eventually the
man of myth, timeless, darkened, veiled by a web of lies
and deceits eventually becomes the real man, and that is
where the God-Man emerges. Who is to say what is real
and what is not, what is possible and what is not? Finn
spent half the year in the halls of men in the service of
the king and the other half in the faery world living as a
semi-mythical deity. Reality? A mere illusion.
Sixth we approach the monastic tradition in its
finest sense, the idea of reclusion and seclusion, the
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separating away from what we are with regularity and
allowing the irregular to emerge. This doesnt always have
to be a lengthy exclusion in the woods or wilderness for a
long period of time (although this is best) but a regular
conscious separation from time and space into the inner
world where there is only thought. We can go down
Asiatic routes of Buddhism or non-mind meditations, or
we can remain in the simplicity of the European monks
repetition of prayer as a meditative act, but the simpler
truth is even older. Meditation is simply the act of sitting
still and being quiet, allowing the mind to wander,
allowing the thoughts to drift off and return at will, not
minding, paying no mind, being mindful, all the same.
There is also the focus of one object on one action to
become a meditative act, even sparring or boxing against
a bag or tyre, practicing sword kata or other martial arts
moves with repetition until the barrier is broken and
calm can set in. We may struggle with these acts and then
think of them as superfluous to the warriors art, but that
merely shows our horrendous separation from the true
violence and desperation of real life. In the Samurai
tradition for example, the meditative act was not only a
discipline and a practice of self-control, it was an escape.
Turning the act of making and drinking a pot of tea into
an almost religious ceremony lasting many hours of
unanimated calm was a way to escape from the horror
and adrenaline of the battlefield. When you spent six
hours solidly hacking people into chunks of meat, with
smoke, screaming, soot, blood on everything, to return to
your tent, ritualistically wash and then engage in a long
bout of chess or meditation would have not only been
relaxing it would have been necessary to stop PTS kicking
in and rendering you useless for the next phase of
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combat. Ironically the arts of extreme violence and
extreme mental, physical and spiritual control go hand in
hand.
Seventh, is the concept of deep mindful study of
a subject or series of subjects. This could be something as
simple as reading mechanical journals and studying the
best way to fix a car on the road, or weld broken joints on
damaged machinery. Or it could be the study of poetry,
prose, literature, myths, legends etc. Whatever the
reason, whatever the material, the discipline of studying
the world around you and being mindful of the results of
yours and others actions is of extreme import. The man
who is skilled with a blade or a gun but is a moron is
utterly useless, even to himself.
Study, meditation, exercise, practice, reading;
these go side by side with the physical endeavours.
Eighth; we now come to the simplest form of
hero worship, that of the ritual to the gods, heroes,
ancestors, descendants, etc. Whether mythical or historic,
we are all indebted to their memory and their spirit, to
abandon and ignore is the greatest blasphemy we can
know and to work out and sculpt our bodies for peak
physical responsibility but not encourage and engage in
ritual observances of respect and gratitude renders us no
more than gym queens or petty thugs.
You should avoid the oppression of anothers
discipline upon yourself; where you find common ground,
then enter with tentative steps and allow yourself to
become acquainted with the heroes of the common
group, but in personal praxis you should find your own
path. Be leaders in the tradition of the heroic, not
followers. We are not isms, ists or ians, we are
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humans; throw off the sculpture of the past and begin to
hew and carve anew.
Respecting and honouring the fallen, meditating
upon their lives and deaths, heroes, mythical figures,
creating your own wheel of the year, holy days, feast days
and days of rest. Too much of modern tradition is based
in the almost Masonic fumbling in the dark of men who
know how to do the rituals but not why.

























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FERAL WARRIOR LODGES

The VIR is an initiatory tradition, not centred on
the Centurion Method but active within it, as an elite
body within the tradition itself. Fitness and the lifting of
logs and rocks, barbell and dumbbell, bodyweight and
boulder becomes a mere side effect of the warrior art.
The Samurai or the Varangian, whose entire life was
focused on the ideas of service, strength, martial ability
and warfare would have seen their physical, mental and
spiritual health as a unified force with which they
bettered their enemies. Lifting weights and practicing the
martial arts therefore become not a way of keeping fit
but a way of life, a Do in the terminology of the Japanese,
a Bu-shi-Do.
The warrior lodges of the VIR, the VIR Lodge
itself is a purely real world endeavour then, and cannot
remain just another one of those things on the minds of
people who write and think on the old ways but dont
actively seek out their accomplishment in their own lives.
To sow the seed is enough, in the hearts and minds of
those who hear and read between the lines, who know
what it is were trying to do without even speaking about
it. Many groups are already active on this front, their
daily lives an act of revolutionary might more powerful
than any gun or bomb.
Conclusively, the VIR functions wherever and
however the participants of the Lodge perceive it to
function. It can be simply a Centurion Method Pit of
practitioners who want to bring an element of greater
poetry and study to their exercise or it can be the full
initiatory masculine warrior brotherhood of the cultural
and national people it expresses. The possibility of a
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Nordic VIR Lodge practicing in full Scandinavian dress
with all the traditions of the Aesir cult intact worshipping
and initiating on the same day as a Russian VIR Lodge in
Slavic form and a Japanese Lodge practicing Shinto etc. is
immense. The unity of men being men and warriors being
warriors expands across borders and nationalities but in
perfect accordance with natures immutable laws, each
and every Lodge will be nationally and culturally
different and each one will be vibrantly aware of the
loose similarity and fundamental difference between his
and his cousins traditions.
The naked elements, properly concluding in a
ritual of bloody violence and fiery smoke in an enclosed
tomb like space reveal themselves to be similes,
metaphors or allegory, when in fact their opposite is true.
What is done in life reflects in death, and what is done in
the darkness of the night or under the earth inevitably
comes out into the light. Luna and Nyx are always greeted
each morning by Horus and Apollo, thus this veiled and
mysterious lodge of warriors manifests as a life affirming
band of men continuing the ancient tradition of the solar
cult.
The Romans expressed this as the Cult of Sol
Invictus, the cult of the Unconquerable Sun, a fraternity
of secret rituals, closed brotherhoods and worship of the
true bringer of light, a sect most popular among the
soldiers. It is this tradition we revive in our Vir Lodges.
The Vir initiation is marked by blood sharing,
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We three; knights of the Sun,
Live and die as one.
Blood bought, blood shared,
On the North Wind.
Bond broken, Croms soil.
Bond broken, Agnis fire.
Bond broken, Nidhoggs bowels.
One blood, one bone.

























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THE CULTUS SOL INVICTUS RITE

(This rite was originally included as part of the longer
work on ritual expression within the Centurion Method.
Ive chosen to include it here without any of the
accompanying explanation and let it stand on its own
frankly maddened merit.
As those of you who own the Sigurd book will see,
a lot of the core tenets and ideas that make up that book
were already being shaped in my mind whilst making
these notes.)
The basic tenets of the mystery cult share many
of the similarities with the rapturous conversions one
expects in the monotheistic religions. Dying and being
born again as a spiritual (or physical) warrior for the
evangelizing of the cult are well known in Christian
terminology. The same can be said to be true of Judaism
and Islam. When converting to Judaism (which is possible
even today outside the militant Hassidim/Orthodox) it is
common to take a new Hebrew name by which you are
referred when in synagogue, you take a ritual bath much
like a baptism and a lengthy ritual and test of your
knowledge of Torah is taken (and obviously circumcision
in males), which is but the exoteric ritual death and
rebirth supposed to display the esoteric alteration. In
Islam the process is a lot simpler but there is often a
taking of an Arabic name, a ritual of acceptance into the
Ummah and a conversion to the state of being in
submission to Allah. All of these are deaths and rebirths
into the cult, as any historical cult leader would approve
of.
We can look at other cults for similar process,
the Free Masons for example. Their rituals are seldom
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discussed past a certain level but many have heard of the
initiation new Masons take, being blindfolded, with one
leg bound, hands tied, noose around the neck, the
Apprentice is ritualistically murdered and buried and as
his blindfold is removed he sees the Master of the Temple
for the first time, bathed in light. Nothing could be more
laughably similar to the ritual of the famous Assassins of
Hassan I Sabah, the death, burial and resurrection of the
adept with the awakening to a new life as a Mason.
Most of the major world religions and political
groups on the hard left or right have similar esoteric cults
that enshrine their dogma in a veil of mystery and cultic
activity. It would be seen to be the ultimate initiation in
mimicry of the divine sin of a pact with the devil. It is
highly ironic that human beings feel it intrinsic to the
mystery school to involve oaths, darkness, sudden light
(coming from darkness into light), awakening, rebirth
and renaming as major tenets of the new life within the
cult. All of these are classical symbols for initiation into
the pagan cults of the Neolithic period which lived on
mythically in the covens of medieval witchcraft.
The witch would be taken to the Sabbath in the
woods where she met the devil, denounced her former
life, renounced her baptism or Christian faith, walked
upon the cross or spat upon the Bible, kissed the buttocks
of a goat or had ritual sex with the Horned God (male
priest) and thence received his mark somewhere upon
her flesh. How much of this is Catholic cultural terrorism
is debatable but the core mystery of a feminine cult
observing the worship of a horned deity and dancing
naked and being marked by him during an
initiation/new birth bears too much resemblance to an
archetypal Pan/Dionysus cult to be entirely mythical.
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To strip it back even further the Roman and
Greek solar cults, those cults focused on Jupiter, Mars,
Sol, Hercules, Mithras, Zeus and so on all featured similar
concepts; the adept dying as a previous member of
society, being ritually buried and reborn or exposed to
the light/wisdom of the cult. All of these are core
metaphors for the entry into the warrior brotherhood
which requires a conception of rebirth, new life,
abandonment of the old and total allegiance to the cult
and the leader as if he were a new father/mother.
Throughout this booklet we will be referencing
such initiations and rebirths as the core symbolism is
stripped back. We will begin by discussing the layout and
symbolism of the book and its contents.
Some might question the primacy of performing
elaborate rituals when your endurance, flexibility,
strength and martial training might suffer due to the
stresses placed on the body and mind during such ritual.
We would only ask you to think on the simple truth of
where your Will Power comes from. When youre doing a
workout, enduring, doing yoga, stretching, lifting
something heavy or fighting in the pit/cage/ring, where
your last reserve of urge to carry on comes from. I
overheard it the other night during my own training, a
grappler I spar with mentioned that he had been
coaching a fighter during a cage match and he said his
assistance became useless, pointless, just more noise, so
he stopped shouting or giving tips. The fighter he was
coaching had gone round after round of pummelling and
was clinging on with nothing but the barest thread of
sheer Will Power to keep standing. In that moment there
is no technique, there is no endurance, there is no
flexibility, no strength, just the inmost core of fire that
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refuses to stop unless the body is put to sleep. The only
way you can cultivate that kind of inner strength is
through fully conscious directed tending of the Will
Power dynamo within yourself. That can only happen
through ritual.
The ritual reconnects the inmost being of the
human with the source from which it came. Regardless of
your religious or spiritual beliefs (which by this point
should not matter) you will believe that life and the
human spark or fire was sourced in some ancient energy,
whether that is the prime mover of the Big Bang, or the
divine fire stolen by Prometheus, or simply the light of
Sol shining through all creation. However you view the
universe the truth is simple, the Everything, the
impersonal One is Nuit, whereas the Experience, the
highly personalised separate We is Hadit, the point. We
are mere dots, everywhere the centre of the universe,
experiencing a highly specialised randomisation of
creation, drops in an ocean, single drips of water making
up the endless depths of the seas. Single sputtering
flames which burn brightly and briefly and then merge
with the greater flame at the source.
To perform rituals in honour and elevation of the
most basic archetypes reconnects that little drop, that
sputtering flame with the divine fire which gives it
renewed life, renewed fuel, it fires you up, gets you going,
resets priorities and sheds the old skin of old beliefs so
that the mind can be reborn (hence the Ouroboros).
The folk customs of every race, tribe and tongue
across the earth mirror this basic urge, the people
commune and celebrate together at specific times of the
year to honour specific alterations in a divine mythic
tragedy which is almost identical across all racial,
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cultural and continental divides. The pattern of the year,
mirroring the patterns of the sun and the moon,
mirroring the pattern of female and male fertility and
birth-life-death-rebirth cycles are the same wherever you
come from and thus the most basic folk custom
honouring those cycles and observing them puts the
human and the tribe firmly into the cycle. Fully inserted
experience of the changing cycles of the year, divine myth
of the male sun god and the female night goddess makes
for highly potent archetypal energy which can be stored
and directed towards certain ends. Will Power comes
from energy, and that is an internal and mystical energy
which is beyond description. We could equate Will with
chi, qi, prana and so on, and perhaps our western
understanding of Will is let down by the omission of such
discussion. Will is the same basic primal energy that
sparked creation, and thus an abundance of Will Power is
an abundance of life itself. The Superman will be a
creature with Will Power in excessive, overflowing
abundance.
We have lost some of this core basic
understanding of Will and reconnecting with the source,
with the most primitive archetypes. Such an
understanding of the importance of primal archetypes,
the truth of the gottermensch from a runic perspective, all
of this cannot be exaggerated. The modern human has
advanced technologically and culturally towards a total
separation with nature, at our expense; the damage done
to the average rural population that once had an intimate
relationship with the land cannot be underestimated. To
assist in that reconnection therefore not only becomes a
duty it becomes a holy obligation, a virtue, a command
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from on high, probably the only one the True Gods will
ever issue.
To apply all of this to your life, is to remind you
of your mental, spiritual and physical responsibility
which you inherited from your forefathers the moment
you woke up in a karmic body of superior intellect,
superior physicality and superior spirituality. Need we
remind you of the statements in the Praetorian booklet,
that from a Nietzschean perspective of a spiritual
separatism, your now dwelling in a body that can refute
the slave religion, not on an aesthetic, political or social
basis (although these are valid) but on the purest notion
that the slave religions are simply not compatible with your
makeup, is a miracle. You owe it not only to your
descendants and to your ancestors but primarily to
yourself to not be bound by any definitions, always
moving, always growing, always observing the
responsibility of the flesh, the mind and the spirit in the
grand myth that is your life.
The Praetorian has mastered the physical, the
four fundamentals are covered; the technique of his or
her chosen focus, militarily or otherwise, the endurance
baseline from which all exercise is launched, the
flexibility allowing him to manoeuvre and navigate his
environment and the strength by which he manipulates
the environment according to his wishes. From here the
only thing that can define his superiority over every
other human who has an adequate level of fitness is his
intellect and his spirituality. They are what give you the
edge.
The Superman will be born from a separatist
society of individuals who see it as a spiritual
responsibility to overcome themselves in every aspect.
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The application of ritual to the life form of the human is
therefore a stepping stone towards the ultimate
sacrament; that of becoming the Superman.






























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THE NUCLEAR-SOLAR DEITY

The highest form of worship is to become what
you adore, what you admire, what you seek to emulate. A
Christian is (supposed to be) the one who walks in the
path of Christ, following his words and his teachings and
doing their utmost to be like unto the Lord. A Muslim
follows the example of Mohammed, a Buddhist the
teachings of Buddha and so on throughout the worlds
major religions. We can see the same pattern emerge in
all human thought and expression of dedication to an
ism or a cult of religious proportion. Celebrity obsessives
dress like their idols, music fans of a specific genre dress
like their heroes, speak like them, fight like them, parrot
what they say in interviews and daily life. We define
ourselves by the archetypes displayed by our heroes.
The only major difference between this modern
behaviour and that of the ancient past is the nature of the
feats which we try to emulate. Our heroes have become
mere mortals, just men, not gods, not giants, just men.
Mortals fall, mortals fail, mortals are easily emulated. If
you want to dress like Kurt Cobain, speak like him, smoke
like him, drink like him, eat like him, fine, youll become
a moron just like him and die early just like him. If you
want to emulate someone allegedly worthy of your
respect, Usain Bolt or another incredible athlete like
Michael Phelps, you read interviews, training regimes,
collect images, follow blogs, become a fan, drink, eat,
think and fuck like your idol, but hes still just a man. You
might even win a thousand gold medals at the Olympics,
but youre still just a weak mortal who will die and be
forgotten. A hero is something else.
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Our ancestors worshipped and emulated heroes.
They drank mead like Thor drank mead, they fucked like
Odin fucked and fathered as many children, the women
prided themselves on mothering and caring for as many
children as Freya, the dogs were named after Geri and
Freki. The men bowed their heads to Mars knowing that
he stood triumphant over all of their victories, he was the
ever victorious, an impossible feat to emulate, requiring
your eternal sacrifice, permanent warfare, permanent
feasting, permanent emulation of the most drastic and
hearty aspects of the human experience. The
pagan/heathen natural experience of the world around
them was sculpted by the experiences of their heroes,
their mythical ancestors, their gods.
The most lofty and pure form of worship
therefore becomes emulation of the impossible feats of an
impossible god. Nietzsche said quite clearly that the
perfect form of worship would be to consciously birth the
superman, not through accidental stumbling across the
power of the human animal, but the conscious and willed
direction of force toward that end. Indeed, from our
perspective in the 21
st
century such an idea is linked with
things like population manipulation and eugenics, but to
the Northern European, Roman, or Greek it would have
just meant becoming like the gods.
It is interesting to note also how all the modern
manifestations of the superman and the solar deity in the
superhero ideal are all traditionally concepts aimed at
children. The comic book, the animated film, all the
famous heroes, Capt. America, Batman etc. are all applied
via childish mediums. We could explain this magically
through the Thelemic idea that we stand at the beginning
of the Age of Horus (the crowned and conquering child)
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and thus everything we do is childish and such lofty
concepts as the superman are now shone through a
childish lens. As we spiritually and mentally evolve
however these concepts should be (and indeed are)
becoming more mainstream and moving out of the realm
of mere myth and into reality, a very, very dangerous
idea.
What we can take from the modern god of the
superhero and the ancient god of the solar/thunder deity
is the link between ridiculous feats of superhuman power,
a moral question behind the use of that power, and the
eventual self-overcoming which leads to a unity between
the ultimate (Brahma/Allfather/OM/God) and the man
(warrior/magician/priest/ascetic).
This god-man or ubermensch always manifests
throughout Indo-European history as a male deity or man
who is intrinsically linked through paternal heritage,
brotherhood, accidental reception or hereditary curse of
some kind to a loftier deity or creature of extreme force
which bestows thunder/solar/nuclear power.
The lightning/thunder/solar/nuclear power of
the deity (specifically Thor/Indra/Zeus) is linked in the
eyes of the ancients as being ultimately of the same
source. They saw the power of the sun, the power of
thunder and lightning, the mountain peak, the celestial
fire of the stars and the very real power of earthly fire as
being linked to some hidden fire of spiritual mastery. The
god-man Sigurd/Krishna/Hercules (and myriad other
manifestations) experienced a physical power which
allowed him to perform insane feats of strength, but was
often coupled with a moral question of how he used such
strength and when he used it. Thor was famed for his
slaughtering of thousands on the battlefields, Indra for
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his constant battling with enormous chthonic deities and
Hercules with his many battles against mortal and
immortal foes. All of this power was sourced in the
invisible/visible nuclear power of the
Sun/Ra/Sol/Om/On.
The symbol of the superman will be the lightning
bolt, the shard of light stolen from the celestial sphere,
the spark of divinity sucked from the divine source and
held in the chest of the god-man as he makes his
ascension towards god-head. This has ever been the goal
of the sun cult in Indo-Europe and the wider world,
wherever the worship of the sun manifests, so too does
the worship of battle, of self-overcoming and violent
conflict with the higher and lower selves in the form of
sacrifice, slavery, domination and might is right.
With the sun comes life and light and passion
and procreation, with the hiding away of the sun comes
the death of all plants and animals, the hibernation, the
recalling of heat and power. The sun is the giver and
taker of life, it is the creation and destruction made
manifest in our human lives. The sun is a symbol of the
esoteric action of the god, the source of primal power. It
is the Light Bringer, the Prometheus unchained, it is pure
force unleashed with no judgement or discrimination,
raw, unadulterated nuclear power.
The death of the sun as the primary ritual of all
Indo European peoples (indeed of all world tribes)
becomes the primary ritual of the Vir. Taking one theme
as our precedent, we can see in the death of Balder in the
Nordic/Germanic tradition the beginning of the
destruction of all things. As metaphor and symbol of the
wider downfall of nobility and tradition (the Ragnarok or
Kali Yuga) we can also see the pattern of the year in the
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myth. This dual interpretation, of a small physical yearly
cycle and a huge galactic/timeless spiritual cycle is
present in all Indo-European mythology. Balder as
immortal, indestructible solar-hero is pierced through
the conniving mischief of the chaotic anti-hero Loki (the
force of chaos which causes winter/decay in all things)
and dies, interred in his funeral ship and causing the
darkness and death to fall upon the aesir which eventually
results in the Twilight of the Gods in the climactic battle
which sees them each slain by their opposite, a symbol of
the decay of every noble thing to its nemesis. A truly
Romanesque pessimism if ever one could be nakedly
displayed.
It stands therefore that for a man of action, a
man of tradition, a man of vir to display anything other
than the purest form of the solar-deity is to display the
antithesis of his foe in chaos. The unity of these two
concepts come in the worship and retelling of the myth of
creation and destruction, told through the lens of your
own culture.
The visible and tangible force of nuclear heat,
manifesting as solar force, the truest spiritual metaphor,
becomes a force of nobility and aristocracy in a world of
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LIVING THE MYTH

The Sun and the 12 signs of the zodiac. For the
earthling this is the only myth; of the Solar god who lives
according to the rules of tradition, worshipping nature,
living according to his own divinely inspired law, fighting
his enemies with spiritual weapons and rescuing divine
wisdom/inspiration/immortality from a god who is also
the wisdom itself and bringing it to mankind. This Solar
deity who is surrounded by his twelve
disciples/knights/warriors/devotees is archetypal to the
human mind. It is so prolific and instinctive among the
various human (especially Indo-European) cultures as to
be hilarious if taken for coincidence.
If we strip back these myths to their core truth
we glean a wonderful instinctive whole which speaks to
the soul of every human:
traces of a myth, with many parallels
elsewhere, telling how gifts of civilization are stolen by
culture-heroes from the divine land for the benefit of
mortals.
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The half human-half god/fairy/demon/hero
enters the divine land and battling against an enemy
which is simultaneously the protector, the god and the
fruit of the wisdom of the gods all at once, he brings the
fruits of his labours back to his kin (mankind) and they
ascend through his suffering or sacrifice to godhead. This
is truly the core of every single myth across the world.
Buddha battles himself and his desires to achieve
Samadhi and bring the teachings back to mankind. Odin

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masters and sacrifices himself to himself and brings back
the runes for mankind. Prometheus and the pillar of fire.
King Arthur and the Holy Grail. Indra and the Soma.
Taleisin and the drops from the cauldron. Jason and the
Golden Fleece. We could go on. Stepping aside from the
major mythologies also, we may look at the alive and
kicking spiritual practices of hunter gatherer cultures,
with the shamans and witch doctors who suffer a life of
being halfway between the realm of the
dead/fairies/gods/demons and the mortal lands, half
shunned and half revered by their community. They
suffer for their people and bring back wisdom and
healing from the spirit realm. This is the only myth. But
what does it mean?
The core myth of the solar hero who descends
into the underworld or into the heavens to wrestle
wisdom from the gods/dragons/titans is the myth of the
Sun itself dying each year and being born again anew,
bringing life and wisdom and plenty to its actual,
physical, living children: mankind. To the Indo-European
as well, the specific cult associated with
Soma/Haoma/Ambrosia/Amrita, of the hero who brings
back wisdom through a violent and thunderous act of
aggression against the gods and carries it in a funnel or
wheel, is deeply associated with the solar myth. The two
are essentially the same.
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This pattern is visible in very real tradition to
this very day. Humans of a shared love or karmic debt
will gravitate towards one another, reforming and

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The reader is encouraged to read the works of Wasson
and Allegro to deepen his understanding of the Soma
myth function.
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reliving patterns of existence they have played out for
millennia. The same storyline will be lived out each time
with very little alteration. If we give it space and run with
the myth we find ourselves tapping into the rich
wellspring of our ancestral and cultural links with these
stories mapped into our DNA.
I have lived this, as have my blood brothers and
sisters.
We share a few precious years with our own
manifestation of the sun-god-man. A man who incarnates
to play out the same story line again, to stand in a
material body and enter the spiritual realm of his own
free will to bring back wisdom and truth to his loved ones
in the physical. Truly the death of the founder of a cult is
the full initiation of its members.
Membership in such a cult is instinctive and
karmic. We are talking about real brotherhood
relationships which grow with time and are marked by
the love and shared experience of love between them. This
is deeper than the simplicity of the literally expressed
Mannerbund, but the Mannerbund is relatively useless
without it.
To live out this myth is to accept that the myth is
being played out right now, right before your eyes. The
sun is still rising in the sky, it still dies each summer and
is reborn each winter, the wisdom of the gods is still
wrested from the deeps of the human unconscious, the
demons of our failures still fought and the hard won
truths passed from spiritual father to spiritual son,
teacher to student. Nothing has changed.
You should then be looking at the faces of your
friends and loved ones, not as mere mortals, but as
ancient heroes and villains manifesting throughout time
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and space, over and over again, repeating the same
mythology that has always been repeated. Among you
there will be a priest, a wizard, a solar teacher, who will
be the lynchpin around which the group functions, the
one who sacrifices something, time, love, physical health,
or his life for the rest of you. There will be a warrior, a
fighter, someone with hard hands who seeks violence to
protect what you all love. There will be a builder, a smith,
a lover, a traitor, a maiden, a Valkyrie, a Conan, a
seductress, there will be all of these things, and they are
the faces of gods not men.
Life is a game, dear friends, and not one that we
take lightly, but one that we take seriously enough to
laugh about. These contradictions are keys to a correct
understanding of the spiritual aspect of the Centurion
Method. For this is a cult no one can join, the
membership closed years ago, when we were but children
and our joy was marked by a lifetimes worth of laughter
and memories of love that will never perish, do you have
such memories?
The introduction to the hymns of Death in the
Rig Veda has it best
Together, these hymns reveal a world in which
death is regarded with great sadness but without terror,
and life on earth is preciously clung to, but heaven is
regarded as a gentle place, rich in friends and ritual
nourishment, a world of light and renewal.
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Eventually we all go back to the mud, our
precious flesh which we have sculpted so hungrily (to
gain a mate, to belittle friends, to master matter)
becomes just so much rotting muck to be devoured by

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beetles and maggots. The flesh is transient and
unimportant, it serves a purpose, to become a better
expression of who you are and always will be. There is no
goal greater or more important for the Kshatriya than to
adequately express his definition of the divine pattern
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THE SECRET MASTERS OF ELBRUS

This 13
th
and final ritual is the master stroke, the
ultimate pathway, the skeleton key which must unlock
the mysterious power present in each of the monthly
festival observances. A key ritual which taps into the
simple truths of the others becomes the highest and yet
the most common ritual. Much like the Communion/Mass
of the Protestants/Catholics or the daily ritual washing
and praying of the Muslim, which are essentially the most
sacred form of worship within the monotheistic cult,
even though theyre observed weekly or even daily. The
13
th
Ritual becomes the core meditation for the
Praetorian, a kind of final retelling of the myth which is
the Centurion Methods purpose.
This ritual, known as the Secret Masters of Elbrus is
a distortion of the alleged practice of a nameless mystery
cult rumoured to be held in a ruined castle in Westphalia.
The ritual this cult observed was (allegedly) known as the
Secret Masters of the Caucasus and involved the beheading
of one of their devoted number, the handing around of
his severed head and the drinking of the blood from his
open neck. The Masonic, Templar and Baphometic
implications are glaringly obvious. The Knights Templar
were accused (among other things) of worshipping a
severed head in the form of the Devil. Anyone
researching the subject will find mention of worship of
Mohammed (etymologically similar to Baphomet at its
root) and a severed head held on a platter, the trampling
or urinating on the cross, ritual sodomy and blasphemous
oath sworn to the Temple Master. All of this in some
mysterious form passed onto the Free Masons who still
worship John the Baptist in some forms and could be seen
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as being a rebel Essene cult that has survived beyond the
Christian period.
John the Baptist as many will know had his head
chopped off at the order of Salome, who has come to
embody satanic salaciousness in the eyes of orthodox
Christians. His head was brought to the throne room,
where it levitated and began speaking and prophesying
the rise of the (then) Essene cultist Joshua the Nazarite.
Little did the severed head know that a clever and shrewd
Romanised Jew named Saul would abduct and subvert the
simple message of the Nazarite Essene and turn it into
modern Christianity. As Christianity spread a small and
rebellious sect of Essenes continued to practice their
simplistic Gnostic/Grecian inspired polytheistic faith in
secret whilst nominally pretending to be Jews, Christians
or Muslims. Those sects eventually inspired the knights of
various orders whilst they were in the Middle East during
the Crusades and became the Templars, Masons,
Bogomils, Cathars and various other heretical anti-
Christian sects.
Core to each of these groups was a strange
obsession with a cup of blood, or the Holy Grail, an old
pagan symbol well known among the pre-Christian sects
as being the symbolic cup which held the
Soma/Haoma/Amrita/Ambrosia blood of the gods. This
Holy Grail was also symbolically equivalent with a
severed head on a platter, the same symbol again,
especially prevalent in the Irish/Celtic pantheon of
myths. Usually a sacred Fairy King or warlord had his
head chopped off (Bran for example) which was carried
some distance back to a sacred spot to be buried, the head
would levitate and prophesy and pass on discarnate
wisdom to the cult before being ritualistically interred
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near the Kings home. The similarity with both of these
symbols to the basic myth of the Soma, a creature which
was slain, beheaded, its blood drunk and then mastery of
matter, godhead, illumination occurring to the drinker, is
obvious. Jesus and John the Baptist simply had their
myths transplanted onto the older pagan religion and the
head of the Baptist subverted the head of the pagan King
and the Holy Grail of Christs blood subverted the blood
cup of the sacred intoxicant.
What immediately struck me about the ritual
observed by the more modern secret Germanic
Mannerbund was the apparent core truth which the rite
revealed. Here was a ritual where a knight/adept/initiate
had his head ritually cut off and the skull was passed
around which the other initiates drunk from as some kind
of initiation or death ritual for reception of power.
Regardless of the source, this kind of ritual symbolism
cannot be ignored. It is well known how obsessed many
modern occultists have become with grail myths, the
Templars, the knights of Camelot, Masonic ritual, and
pagan mythology. Perhaps in searching for the Holy Grail
and not coming back with anything of substance,
explorers like Otto Rahn did come back with the truth of
the ritual hidden in their work, i.e. a ritual of sacrificial
beheading and blood drinking for power and strength in
battle.
Another part of the symbolism which I found
particularly intriguing was the decision to name it Secret
Masters of the Caucasus. Anyone looking for the origins of
the Germanic race, would be hard pressed to find a better
candidate than the Caucasus mountains and the steppes
of Turkey and southern Russia. The Indo-European
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language root is found in the Mountain of Tongues as the
Arabs called it, in the Caucasus mountain range.
The Caucasus Mountains touch the Fertile
Crescent of the Near East in ancient Babylon (Iraq), Persia
(Iran), Russia, Turkey and the Baltic countries. Ironically
it was these countries which spawned the Bogomil and
Cathar cults before they spread into Europe and
particularly France. It was also through this area that
some of the Crusades would have had to march to get to
the Holy Land, obviously exposing them to the
Gnostic/Dualist faith of old Zoroaster.
Archaeologically the Caucasus does hold the title
of the source of modern mankind, it is truly the Mountain
of Tongues as the Arabs have always declared. The tallest
peak in the Caucasus is Mt Elbrus, which according to
Greek myth is where Zeus chained Prometheus, which is
perfect for what were trying to explain. Here is the
mountain where the gods chained the fallen god who had
brought divine fire (speech/wisdom) to mankind. It is
also of interest to note how similar Mt Elbrus sounds to
the Grecian Titan Erebus, the father of darkness, and also
the place the dead pass through on their way to the
otherworld, interchangeable with Tartarus, or Hell. Mt
Elbrus could be seen to also therefore mirror the hellish
mountain upon which the first Cainite tribes found
themselves after banishment from the mythical Garden of
Eden due to their (and Lucifer/Prometheus)
transgression. Elbrus means pine cone or twisted
object pointing to a further mythical link with
crookedness, being bent, hidden violence etc.
To add further mystery and weight to the idea of
the Caucasus being the origin of modern man, the Mount
of Tongues, we have the sacred sites in Turkey of Catal
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Huyuk and Gobekli Tepe. Catal and Gobekli are two of the
oldest religious sites on earth, with Gobekli taking the
current title, being built in 10,000 BC by one of the
earliest Neolithic cultures. Allegedly built with nothing
but flint or antler picks the workmanship and quality of
both sites is incredible. The presence of a statue of a
female figure, pregnant and fat seated on a lion headed
throne with a skeletal figure at her back represents the
simple beauty and high level of culture the Caucasus folk
had achieved. The similarity with this and other images
to those of the Indo-European pantheon is striking. The
religious beliefs of this culture appear to focus almost
entirely on animals and agriculture, much as our rural
cultic observance of the Wheel of the Year does to this
day. That presents us with an astounding link between
our own observances now 12,000+ years after the use of
sites such as Catal and Gobekli for the same purposes.
Religion need not get any more complicated than that
which is displayed in the Caucasus; that much is obvious.
It is also highly interesting to note that the especially
respected and highly regarded members of society in the
burials at these sites had their heads separated from their
bodies.more beheading in the Caucasus
Id like to also mention the Avestan/Persian
sacred mountain of Hara Berezaiti, the high watchpost of
the gods around which the stars and the planets revolve,
and described as being the source of all lands and waters.
Could the Avesta have been pointing to the same
ancestral homeland where all language, life, water,
agriculture and farming all originated? If that homeland
was in the Caucasus it also would have featured the
mythological structure of the Soma/Haoma cult of
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beheading, intoxication and power worship through the
Brahmin/Kshatriya, Priest/Warrior archetype.
So, what do we end up with when we put all of
the pieces of this puzzle back together? Well, in my
humble opinion we should strip this right back to the
simplest symbols. The ritual was obviously inherited from
the Grail myths, the Cathars, the Bogomils and the
Templars etc. The ritual beheading of an initiate, the
drinking of the blood obviously comes from an even older
ritual focused in the Caucasus/Turkish burial mounds
where the severing of a shaman or warriors head was
linked with inspiration and divining of power from the
deceased. Mount Elbrus as a site of importance, the Mount
of Tongues, where the Arabs believed all language came
from, corresponds to every mountainous abode where
Indo-Europeans and the widely influenced cultures they
met with on their travels focused their solar cults.
This ritual will be properly expounded and
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The question from the beginning was always
what is the Centurion Method? For so long so many people
who contacted me and asked for access to the training
manual or a copy of the PDF responded with its cross
training for Viking re-enactors, missing the point
completely. A lot of people thought this was military style
workouts for people who are too scared to go into gyms,
and even went as far as to masquerade it as such on their
blogs or website reviews.
Certain elements within the Centurion Method
will always be comparable to modern fitness fads and
traditions within the fitness scene. But the key point is
(and what I want everyone to take from this) the
Centurion Method was always supposed to be so much
more.
To reduce it to a workout regime or a system
which makes someone fitter or faster or happier as a
human is essentially akin to calling the Catholic Church a
distributor of circular edible wafers. The Catholic Church
may be a distributor of circular edible wafers but it is
supposed to be (and was intended to be) the visible
manifestation of the body of Christ on earth. Perhaps that
is confusing.
One of the reasons I personally took the charge
with handing the reins of the Centurion Method over to
the practitioners in early 2013 was because it had so
drastically shifted from what I perceived when I
originally wrote the training manual.
For that reason I intended to keep this closing
statement short, because we should have said enough in
the previous 300+ pages about what it is you should and
should not construe the CM to be. If by this point the
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waters have become more muddied than when you
originally began reading, then good, we have succeeded.
Life is not a parable that can be understood with
one short reading, we march day in day out between veils
and mirrors and shadows and smoke of all the different
incarnations of a thousand billion different karmic cycles,
all warring against one another for supremacy.
Read again, and rethink your initial assumption.
It has been a pleasure writing these works, and
whilst they may conflict, therefore approving a level of
discordance which my allies and associates may disprove
of, it has been a process I enjoyed, even when it was
spiritually and socially destructive to do so.
It has also been a pleasure to stand and perhaps
to know you, here on the edge of time, at the end of all
things.


Craig Fraser. 2014.






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